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RW:S

April 22, 1938

Dear Mrs. Standish:

Many thanks for your letter of April 11 as well as for the photograph of the Boiserie and the marble statuette which also arrived in the meantime.

I would have already written you before today but somehow I had hoped, according to your lines, to see you and Mrs. Dillman here in New York on your way back to Detroit. It would have been so nice seeing you, but evidently you either went directly to Detroit or you had no time for poor little me, but there is an old saying, "If the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed has to go to the mountain", and this may happen sooner than I had thought a few weeks ago.

Captain Seligmann and I will have to go in all probability the week after next to Chicago and most likely to Detroit, and being a good "faithful" I would naturally love to see the "Shrine". Could you, therefore, be good enough to drop me a line, letting me know if you and Mrs. Dillman expect to be in Detroit around the 3rd of May, as I would love to call on her and I am most anxious to see her house about which I have heard so very much.

I note with interest what you tell me about your "shameless Sarah". Here's hoping the nibble from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has developed into a bite, perhaps into even a strike ! It is a good thing you keep your fingers crossed.

About myself I can report very little. The grinding mill of every day life has gotten me completely in its clutches.

GS