Henri to Yvette.

9 Henri Melchior, ul Jaworzynska 10, n.8 Warszawa

It is Wednesday night, darling, six days after your departure. I am horribly alone; it is impossible to tell you how much I am pining. When I leave the office at 3pm I don’t know what to do. I walk like a crazy man through the streets of Warsaw and ask myself what I am doing there. I have a horror of the house. Everything is sad and empty of all feeling. Yvette, my little one, I am without you and I need you.

I have not yet received a letter from you and I don’t know whether you are at Belmont. And I don’t know whether you are happy. Tonight I said to Henriette, because she saw it, that I was terribly depressed. She said to me that I was pining too much   and that I imagine that you too are sad without me. “She can’t be pining as much as you. I don’t believe it”. When I protested she said it was because you have Zouzou, Helene etc.

In any case, darling, here I – it’s more than I can say. You fill my being and I am greedy for your presence. I feel as though I should wait for your letter and not write before. But I can’t wait. I must tell you darling that I love you. Or, once more “Good morning, darling”. And before I forget, your telegram set my mind at rest about the “Dakota”. So was it wonderful? Any news about you? I hope the news won’t be contrary to my deepest desire. I embrace you darling and I love you, I love you, I love you- how much, you know.

Henri

Write often. And how is Jacqueline?

Some time this week, a woman will deposit 200,000 Fr into your account. She is called Amalia Klucznik and it is from my brother in Zurich. My brother wrote to me. What a wedding present! See you soon darling

Henri.

[Scribbled in H’s writing: Fac. Nancy Dernier? 15 Dec 1930 24 Dec 1930 Haim Adler 1/14 Nov 1911]