As mentioned I am waiting for the opportunity – to send the

picture – it is not possible by motorcar, as the roads here are icy and in places

full of holes, and where they have become bare again, they have “thawed”

completely and are soft, so that even the wheels of a wagon will sink down

halfway ~~under~~ ^belowthe shafts, – the day Olai left, there were

two motorcar departures, because the road was temporarily passable, since it had

been bare and covered with frost, – but the motorcar was so overcrowded, that it

would have been difficult to send the picture with it, even if

Olai Sægrov had come by my place; – incidentally I

did not know he, that he left that day, until the following day, – and by then

the motorcar had left for the last time, and it had already departed,

when I found out that Olai Sægrov had left, – for the present

it is difficult to leave here even with a horse and wagon; –

but I hope, that you can have it by Christmas, if I shall hire

a horse and driver to take it to Förde. I have received the crate, –

but it just now occurred to me, that it might be possible

to send it by post packed between plywood. – Flùge

is not at home just now, – but I wonder, if he

might not still have some of the plywood, that you sent this spring –

You mentioned something about, how there was so much of it that I might use

some for packing back then, – (it had to do with Urdal’s picture – but

your plywood was in Förde, when I left; but I obtained some from Berg)

I have thought about sending the picture “evening atmosphere in Sunde” –

or “summer night at Kjösnesfjorden” at the same time, – but it will

have to wait if I am going to send it by post. (d’you remember that picture,

the one you said should be “embellished” – I have painted over it a little since then)

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