Upside down text at top: Spring is long in arriving here – the ice is still a metre thick

and there is much snow. We fear a bad year for the crops.

I will therefore not

send anything to the exhibition

at Mr. Didr. Andersen’s without

consulting You first.

Well forgive this chaotic letter

the postman is expected any second here.

We are relatively healthy, but are

lacking many things, – worst

of all flour, – it’s the same

old grief.

If You meet Hnr. Rom,

You must greet him from me, – I met

him and spoke for a minute with

him at the artists banquet – and later

I saw his excellent pic-

tures at the "government exhibition" – he is into

something that is the most personal I have

seen amidst the fumbling attempts of our times. With

best greetings from Engel and me

Your devoted Astrùp

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