Monday, 19 March Dearest Annerl! How are you? How’s it looking with the schools? Did you marry the insulin inventor? Or are you just spending so much time with Clarence that you haven’t got around to writing? Lauterburg the painter came by unannounced. I showed him all the reproductions I have here, and he was absolutely beside himself with enthusiasm until eventually I gave him that portrait by Lippo Lippi, which he loved so much that he simply couldn’t put it down again. Then he wanted to go to a shop to buy the rest of the reproductions I have. …
front of painting and started raving about the ‘mysticism of space’, which one only finds