What is the status with “The Widow’s Room”? – is

it still available? And am I allowed to

bring Engel and the children with me for a stay of

a few days, if it turns out to be difficult to

find accommodations in Bergen? – we will in that case bring

wool blankets with us and arrange “flat beds” on

the floor in “The Widow’s Room”. It will

hardly be before the first fortnight, I have so

much to take care of here – a little debt obliga-

tions and so on, and then I should

perhaps try to complete a few of

my miserable pictures, – but this

fever has impeded me the entire summer,

so that I haven’t painted anything, – have

attempted to complete the blocks for the

large woodcut of “foxgloves”, but

don’t know yet, how it will turn out.

My sincerest wishes to your wife with thanks for her

bother with regard to Engel’s shoes. Hoskildsens

has left and asked me to say hello. – See you later!

Your devoted Engel and Nikolai Astrup

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