Yvette to Henri.

6 June Paris

Henri darling,

I want to advise you in a few lines that I won’t be able to write to you for a while. I leave tomorrow for Baden Baden, from where I will be sent to one of the occupied zones of Germany or Austria.  Hired by the National Immigration Office (under the Ministry of Labour), I go to take part as nurse in a medical team inspecting immigrants that France recruits in the displaced persons camps and among the civilian population to replace in industry and agriculture the German prisoners who have gone. One of our friends who asked me to take this job… I will stay in this job for 3 months maximum…. A fortnight ago I was in Paris, taking the bus between Jacqueline’s house at Seine et Oise and friends in Paris. It was terribly hot all the time and truly Paris heat is very painful. But Paris is always absorbing and charming… I love it… I don’t yet know my address in Germany. You can write to Belmont and Helene will forward it. I have received nothing from you since your letter of the beginning of April.  Drop me a line, darling, if only to give me your news from time to time. I think often and long about you Henri. I would love to see you.

I embrace you tenderly, Your Yvette.