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March 25 1944

Dear Hedda,

Received now a big envelope from you, your photo and a good letter. As I told you this kind of picture is not what I want, I mean I like it but the way I see you is you as a whole with hands and shoes and strange enough (because to other people you may look different) to me you just look like a good homely girl, a fine thing to be with and to have around. You know that yourself, so (and that is part of my feeling against such pictures) trow [[throw]] away the art photographer who made you look like advertising for beauty products and send me a photo postcard size of you standing and sitting. Do it in a fotoshop just the way we used to do as children or so in occasions of somebody's wedding. I hate to insist so much but I want to have a picture of yours to carry in my pocket to look at now & then. I miss you all the time and I carry in my pocket drawings of you but they get dirty after a while in my pocket and I want to conserve them, they are really beautiful and they look very much like you and like the way I remember you. Also as drawings [[strikethrough]] w [[/strikethrough]] are very good and I'm glad to think that I have a wife who makes drawings and also