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Sixty-five Central Park West
New York City

Tuesday

Frida Darling —

I don’t care what business
you write about — as long as
you write —and as long as
you seem vigorous and alive
and full of the devil — you
betcha boots I’ll say “O.Kay”
my girl!”

I didn’t answer your
letter right away quick
because I was sick. The
doctor told me I was having
a miscarriage. I told him
he was cuckoo! I was right!

Instead, I’m having a
baby — Frida darling — next
July. You must be here
to sprinkle holy water on
her or him or it and share
it all with me. Besides, its
very good medicine for Sol — it
makes him more cuckoo every
day. I think he’s happy.

I talked to Nick yesterday.
He told I told him two weeks
ago that I had to stay in
bed & could not go to see
Julien Levy. But you know
that he went. He told
me what he had written you —
but I do not think altogether

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that he is right. Its wonder-
ful that you will be getting
100 every month for the coming
year but I think that it
would be a good thing for
both Christina, and you too, if
you went thru with your
oring original plan — on a smaller
scale, maybe.

If you spent just enough
to make your fathers house
attractive and rented to
tourists, even though Christina
made only a very little
money, it would leave you

more free. You wouldn’t have
to worry about them the year
after — only about yourself —
and that is much better.

Don’t do it ambitiously —
but just enough to make it
possible for Christina to rent
the rooms — and if you spend
less, she will have to charge
less when there are fewer
foreigners. But don’t give up
the idea. Think it over —
do a part of the house
and see. Then you can
be free — regardless of how
long you can get $100 a

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month from Julien.

Do you plan now to com
prepare paintings for an exhibit
in Los Angeles — or will you
send them to Julien? I think
if a show is properly prepared
in Hollywood, you would get
much more money and would
be included in many collections.

But whatever you do, Frida
dear, I want to see you soon,
to read your face and know
what is happening to your
insides, the most important of all

If you can come in a few
months, I will take you to
the country, to a farm we
are trying to buy, and sit
and get bigger and closer to
my insides every day, while I
look at your beautiful face
and my insides will grow
warm with looking at so much
life and so much richness of
spirit — you and the earth
opening up all around.

Say you will come, my Frida.

Mary linda.