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Claudius Fulda

Caneel Bay
July 30,1949

Dear Little Claude:

There is no doubt you achieved a miracle for not only did we get an answer from F.G. with the minimum of time, but when I think that I wrote to you on the 21st and got your answer back on the 28th, across five or six thousand miles, that is doing pretty well.

Guiot. I am glad it is settled and I am not surprised at your personal reaction, but in business we must take people as they are. There is very little choice.

Foinet. I am glad this is taking shape and by now he should, from your lines, I deduct, have already taken delivery of the second "demenagement". In this connection I shall write to your father in September, as I will need his help in his capacity as liquidator to obtain some affadavits but there is nothing to do right now in this direction.

Now about F.G and his friend Robert, will you tell him that while I was in New York upon my return from Paris, I wrote him that I was sending a copy of my letter to Robert with my new addressed to him rue de Constantine, separate from the letter I wrote him at the office. I am intensely curious to know whether he received the copy of my letter to Robert, as from his letter of July 25th F.G. does not seem to have it. It may well be that he did receive it, stuck it in his pocket and forgot about it. Would you be so good as to inquire and any with me here and would not be able to mail F.G. one until September, the office in New York being closed now until September 6th. I am enclosing herein a letter to F.G. in answer to his of the 25th, as he is out of town on a trip and it seems to me better to put it with your letter.

I cannot tell you how distressed I am to read of Alain's having gone to Africa. What do you actually think of the condition of his knee? He is such a plucky and courageous boy that I know he was anxious to hide it from us, but it seems to me he had a certain stiffness in his leg. When you have an opportunity of writing him, do send him Ethlyne's and my most affectionate thoughts. 

It is sweet of you to write to me as you do, but don't answer this letter unless there is something which you feel you should tell me, as I don't want to over-burden you with correspondence. Before closing, however, I want to tell you of the good arrival of the Gauguin catalogue in New York and to thank you most heartily for it. 

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