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Mrs. V. Jordan
Tenafly
New Jersey
U.S. Amer.

here for 2 months anyway, but I will
write well ahead as I don't want to
miss her. She might help me too, as
later I maybe bringing baby over to
Paris. That is If I take only a tiny trip
to Londn.

I do love Suiss but it is utterly
cut off. But then I like that too, as I am more
and more hating of people. By the way,
I thought Williams most banal. Don't tell
him so, and Florence we all thought
was too silly. She tried to carry on like
a movie vamp and it didn't become her and
it was so futile with a husband in the
background. They both wanted
"relationships" we all thought. But
no one was having any from either of them.
I thought Williams common place, common and
banal. Don't say so to anyone. I can't
afford to make enemies. But really, really
there are limits.

What FOOLS and IDIOTS yourhusbands
people are. If I once let loose on my own
I wouldn't ever stop, so must not begin.
Cape will be after me as I should
put all my venom into letters
instead into high AHRT.

Now I do love all your write and will
hope to see Anna and we can talk over you
and try to think of something. The little
geranium and verbena bag has sweetened much
of my bitterness. Much love and to the
three whom I am sure are charming, but
O HOW I UNDERSTAND!

INTERLAKEN

me a line
sometime.
Best wishes for
1928.

Jan. 3.
Riant Chateau
Territet.

Carte postale
Postkarte
Cartolina postale

Mns. Viola Jordan

TENAFLY
New Jersey

U.A. AMERICA.

RIANT CHATEAU
TERRITET
(SUISSE)

Nov. 27.

Dear Viola,

Forgive me for not writing and
thanking you for the lovely song. I
have been trying to find some "worthy"
to play it for me so that I could
really appreciate it but have discovered no
one, so I am hanging on to the song,
hoping. You were really very
clever to do it. Are you working on
other things ? I am always interested.
How are the charming children ?
Are you still in the old house ?
I have found a tiny attic here where
I hope to spend my summers. Here, being
169 Sloane St., London. I am
returning to Switzerland, however, to
the old address, D.V., on
Wednesday of next week. It is cold and
snowing here and no proper steam-heating,
so I am glad to return to the comforts

of a properly padded Swiss winter. We
have cold but it is clear and dry.
Fog and mist here become unbearable.

I am so sorry I have neglected
writing as I miss your letters. I
was terribly rushed and crowded this
summer, finding this flat. Then my mother
was here and my two brothers and many
friends. I will write again. This
is just in haste to let you know
I am returning and to hope you will let
me have news. The song, I repeat,
is CHARMING.

Much love to you all for P. and

169 Sloane Street,
London.

17th September.

My dear Viola,

I haven't answered before because I have been so
frightfully busy on a new book, which has to be done before the
winter. Your letters of criticism were most interesting, in
fact when I read them to the editor he tore them from my hands and
said " ah, we must print some extracts from this. We want to get
the American view-point. " Your subscription arrived quite safely
but we shall not need it to buy a new camera or equipment as our
own is the best camera made with all the newest devices for trick
photography and cost without accessories, special lenses sunshields,
etc two thousand dollars alone. The rest of our equipment brought
it to about double that amount, including Kleig lamps, spot lights,
etc.

You know, we do not go in for the very brilliant lighting
effects of your Hollywood films. Our photographer who is an expert
on all technical points of photography is very cleverful of the obvious
lighting in most American films. He achieved some wonderful effects
with shadow and half-lights. This, dear Viola, only in answer and
defence of our achievement, which you must understand is not at all
on an amateur basis but controlled by experts. All the same, I
liked your candid criticism and it certainly does represent the other
side of the question. The editor in fact, was so pleased with some
of your remarks that he is printing a few of them in extracts from
letters in CLOSE UP.

Your cinemas sound very magnificent. As a matter of fact in London and Paris they are very much the same; almost too sumptuous but in Territet they are very much more modest although we have the advantage of seeing all the best films from Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden, etc about six months before a general release because they do not go in for advance booking to any great extent.

My dear Viola, we appreciated you sending us the Williams article but I want you to understand a rather delicate situation in the matter of accepting it. I am sure you will. And I need only explain that Williams is a great friend of McAlmon, who recently was divorced from Bryher, our sub-editor and it makes a slightly awkward situation. So you must not be hurt that I send it back. Much as I like the article there is a further complication in the fact that McAlmon and Williams ran Contact magazine together and as Contact passed on to publishing we do not want to have POOL books in any way linked up in the public mind with this.

You seem to have been doing wonders with your garden, and your account of jam and cake making really made my mouth water. I hope you are all very well and do send me more comment about the films. You know, you should do us an article. You must excuse the somewhat ragged nature of the style as I have dictated this to a friend who has kindly undertaken to help me out with typing my book.

With love,

Yours,

New Years Day, 1929.

Yes, I am very fond of the Post, dear Viola and this
year subscribe to it. I had read the first half of the
Rebecca Wset story in Berlin but had not got hold of
the second part (my subs. begins Jan. ' and was so
delighted. You could not have sent me a more apt Christmas
present. No, you are quite wrong. I don't believe I speok
in that supercilious way about making " money. " I only felt and
feel that one can not serve God and .... and IF it is your job to
be highbrow you get further in the end ( id est seek ye first ... )
by sticking TO your job, than by messing around in various
layers of life. I have ofth wanted to sit down solemnly
and with the utmost " wit " and try and try to turn out a
Post story. It would be as foreign to me as painting a picture
or acting ... but then I know that I could paint a picture
and act if the right moment demanded it.

the work of many of the Post people ... but it IS a special
gift. One would have to give up everything to it ... for again
one can not serve God and M. and God may be just as much in
a good post story as in Hericlitus. The point is to get the
thing and to BE the thing - STRAIGHT.

I loved

your letter and hope you write again. I lost my mother after
a time in America. I mean she went back to America ... and
friends, Kenneth and Bryher have definitely taken on this place,
I have my rooms and all appurtanances but could not have afforded
it alone. It is lovely this way ... as they do all the horrible
house-keeping details. I have a tiny flat in London still but will
not be able to keep it on much longer unless I live there all the

time and I don't want that. Bryher and K. are heavenly to me and are getting a car this year so I will have a wonderful time here resting and really working. They are getting on well with Close Up. Their connection is largely in Berlin and Russia, as they are trying to further new ideas and ideas.

They have had much to content with and many, many slams and detractors ... but that is to be expected. I will try to get you some of the latest numbers if you could bear them. I don't yet know what it was all about and am certainly sorry for any thoughtlessness on my part ...

I am interested in a woman who does very remarkable readings from numbers and birthdays. If you send me your name as it was given you at birth and your exact birthday, I will try to get a reading for you. This is not just silly but helps a lot. I say your name " at christening or registration " for you would be amazed at the number of people who have changed a letter or dropped a middle name or added a middle name. The " tag " you were given at or just after birth is supposed to have some very great influence on all your life, that with your birthday and if possible TIME of your arrival ( though she doesn't do much with that ) is very helpful. If you want to give me the children too, I might get them worked out. It sounds silly but isn't really. Tendencies, why certain slack times and failures etc. etc.

Well, this is just to acknowledge your letter which came with my New Year breakfast and to thank you for the enclosures and to say I do, do hope you write again, to

May 24.

Dearest Viola,

So many thanks for the book. You
can not imagine how I have enjoyed it and it has
helped me so much too. Are there any others
of the same genre, good I mean ??? Anyhow, a
thousand thanks. I have been worried how to get the
money to you, my dear, do forgive me. At last,
comes the idea of my brother to whom I have written,
asking him to send you check for 5 dollars on
his Pittsburg bank. It will come to almost that
with postage etc. etc. If there is 50 cents
over, do go to a good movie, if there is one of
your neighbourhood.

I have wanted,
myself to send you a book on numbers but the
only one I have is purely superficial and not
at all right for any serious work. I might
get it for you for a joke, only it is rather
deceptive for people like ourselves and to
explain the whole method in its bigger way would
mean a weeks work. But maybe one day, I will
work out a little chart for you to go with the
book and correct it. There is of course always
the superficial sensation hunter who uses these
things for "palor games" and I think the man,
Cheiro ( now dead ) who wrote the book makes it
clear that there is a "greater" knowledge and he
gives a mild edition. The woman I got the
"real" inner "numbers" from was an invalid, a
sort of physically doomed being who by an effort

mid-June @ Lloyds Bank,

67 Kingsway, London W.C. 2.

After July 169 Sloane St. (D.V.) I shall

probably be in Paris for a few days in
the transit. All love and best of

good wishes from

of will re-made herself. She got interested in
these matters and worked out for herself a sort
of chart of " inner " numbers. There is of course
dangers, as you know, for the " outsider " getting
too mixed up but I know and feel you have got great
gifts, like this other friend in London who worked
in an odd way. Her " fortunes " are so terribly
clear and right that she has to take the greatest
care herself, not to abuse her power. Twice she has
told me things of the utmost value, but I always
keep these matters for moments of the greatest
preplexity. In fact, have only twice in a long
period of friendship, actually" consulted "
her. It is so exciting at the same time so
wonderful, that one does not like to over-do the
matter... almost like taking drugs, I should think;
thought that sounds sort of, I am sure you get what
I mean.

If I

do send you the number book, I will have to
outline a little chart for you, but I will try to
do that as the numbers in some odd way, fit in with
the stars. This is of course for YOU as I do not
like my great " discovery " abused by the wrong
people. You know how it is ... I am sure you"
feel the same. In fact, you have so interested me
that I am really very serious when I say I would
like to write an anonymous little pamphlet myself
to add to the already long list.

Well do, do write my dear. And let me know if there
is anything I can do for you. I am due in
London about the 1st of July. Write me after