Sept 4 – 40

[Personalized stationery]
116 East 66th Street

Frida dear — Your letter
has come — and I can’t
tell you how distressed
I am to read of all
you have been going
through — It is too
horrible — I am so
glad you are going
to San Francisco — today —

I heard that you
were going there some
little time ago — or

I would have written
you long before — I
didn’t want to send
a letter to Coyoacan
and have it wandering
around — Now don’t
pay any attention
to any thing else
except getting well
again — that is the
only thing that matters —
Forget about the money
I sent you — I don’t
want to be paid back —

except by your getting
entirely well —

I wish you had seen
Irene Bohus — You would
have liked her I think —
I can’t believe that
what you say about
her and Diego is true —
gossip rarely is — I had
a remarkable letter
from Diego about her —
and every thing in it
was directly opposed to
what you think — I
have always felt he loved

you only —

I am just back today
from a month on a ranch
in Montana — Unfortunately
I broke a leg after being
there ten days and had
to sit around in a cast
for two weeks — Then my
mother — who is eighty-seven —
was reported dying and
I hurried back to see her —
she is living on and may
for some little time — Such
helpless old age is pitiful —

Write as soon as you can
Frida dear — I send you
much love — [illegible]

[To:] Miss Frida Kahlo
c/o Dr Leo Eloesser
490 Post St
San Francisco
Cal —

[Postmark] Sep 4 1940, 8 PM, New [illegible]

[Postage] U.S. Postage 6 cents VIA AIR MAIL