细节
STEIN, GERTRUDE. Autograph letter signed ("Gertrude") to Mrs. J. Moses (a relative in Baltimore), 27 Rue de Fleurus [Paris], n.d. [original envelope addressed by Stein postmarked 22 November 1922]. 8 pages, 8vo, Stein's street address imprinted in red on first page, with typed transcript, half moroccco folding case.
"MATISSE IS GONE TO SPAIN"
A splendid letter: "...Winter has come here with a rush, it's very cold when it is not raining and the Seine is rising but not anybody is worried about that this year they don't even trouble to look over the railing when they cross the bridge. [Henri] Matisse is gone to Spain to get rest and warmth but he dismally wrote that there was rain and snow in Madrid and no comfort excepting near the stove. His father has just died and he was quite used up with the excitements of that event and the depressing effects of French mournings. I don't believe anyone can wear such terribly black mourning as French women do. He told me that he had seen his mother and his wife and daughter go down the street and he had not thought anything about it it being the ordinary thing to be in mourning and then in the middle of the night he began to feel badly and he found himself saying 'I don't like crows, I don't like crows..." Stein tells of "a very queer scene" regarding Matisse's father's life insurance, and continues: "...we have the other atelier now and it is all fixed excepting the door which has not yet been cut through. It makes a very comfortable room for Leo [Stein, her brother], we have divided the pictures between the two rooms, in some ways that is a better arrangement and in some ways it isn't. Alice's [B. Toklas, her companion] latest excitement is buying an oven [for her legendary brownies?] that will bake on a gas stove. She spends all her evenings in the kitchen and she wants to know if you have any good recipes for corn bread and beaten biscuit, and such and to send it to her in complete detail..." Stein ends: "...I have got a horse to keep company with my two cows. They look very handsome together. Good-by people, I hope I will be hearing soon that the pictures came alright..."
"MATISSE IS GONE TO SPAIN"
A splendid letter: "...Winter has come here with a rush, it's very cold when it is not raining and the Seine is rising but not anybody is worried about that this year they don't even trouble to look over the railing when they cross the bridge. [Henri] Matisse is gone to Spain to get rest and warmth but he dismally wrote that there was rain and snow in Madrid and no comfort excepting near the stove. His father has just died and he was quite used up with the excitements of that event and the depressing effects of French mournings. I don't believe anyone can wear such terribly black mourning as French women do. He told me that he had seen his mother and his wife and daughter go down the street and he had not thought anything about it it being the ordinary thing to be in mourning and then in the middle of the night he began to feel badly and he found himself saying 'I don't like crows, I don't like crows..." Stein tells of "a very queer scene" regarding Matisse's father's life insurance, and continues: "...we have the other atelier now and it is all fixed excepting the door which has not yet been cut through. It makes a very comfortable room for Leo [Stein, her brother], we have divided the pictures between the two rooms, in some ways that is a better arrangement and in some ways it isn't. Alice's [B. Toklas, her companion] latest excitement is buying an oven [for her legendary brownies?] that will bake on a gas stove. She spends all her evenings in the kitchen and she wants to know if you have any good recipes for corn bread and beaten biscuit, and such and to send it to her in complete detail..." Stein ends: "...I have got a horse to keep company with my two cows. They look very handsome together. Good-by people, I hope I will be hearing soon that the pictures came alright..."