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Amsterdam
Beethovenstr. 38
29.T.47

Dear Germain Seligman
     
I have received with great pleasure your kind letter, very glad to hear from you after the long interruption of valuable relations. I am happy to tell you, that I escaped the dangers of these cruel years, living now under agreeable conditions in my library with my old housekeeper. In my field of work in cannot do very much in my age and must be satisfied not to forget what I observed in younger years. You remark, that every country is living now on own substance. In some degree that is also right in the field of science. The new literature in the U.S.A seems to me rather strange, especially the books and articles on modern painting. 

If you like to send me anything: food parcels are now not necessary to me, but what I require, is thin note paper for oversee correspondence. And of course photos of