Yvette to Henri.

27 June, Vienna

My good darling,

I have just received this morning your letter of 5 June.  …(Repeats what she has already said in previous letters about the end of the Children’s colony job, moving to grandmothers place in Belmont with mother and Ouri, and getting this 3 months job in Vienna.) We have relatively little work and it is an interesting job. Joined to the medical team a trade union representative from the underground who is a former miner and a policy commissioner of the former FTP, one of the few who was not liquidated after the liberation…. You cannot know how happy I am that you have left Palestine. First of all, there is no longer the sea between us. And I feel my legs walking on the same earth as you. …And then, I will see you, have you, embrace you, listen to you. For I want to have you back Henri. There is so little distance between us not and so much desire in me. In your letters I feel, I hear your heart beating with love. And I am happy about it.  Can you hear mine, darling, beating with the same rhythm?  I can speak of it with difficulty. What I would like is to have you near me. To never leave you. And you, will you open your arms to me, darling?  My God! To feel you so close to me and not to have you. Yesterday evening I heard a fine concert. Four piano sonatas of Beethoven that overwhelmed me as they always do. And I felt you there.

I don’t know if this letter will astonish you. I am not astonished. Not at all. For I have wanted to write it for a long time.  I wrote it a long time ago. It is in a little packet of letters that I didn’t send but I sense that you are not astonished, that you waited for it. I will try to send you a telegram. I have sent you a letter this morning by military post. Tell me which of the two arrives first…So I await letters from you. Many letters. And I await our reunion. I can easily go for several days to Prague. Could you come there? I must see you darling. I need you…We will soon have a child Henri if you want it too. That’s something we have long carried in our hearts.

I love you. I embrace you

Your Yvette.