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… will always be the Museum's anyway. I have been here foreabout six weeks now in a small Landhaus in southern Bavaria. The Landhaus is in the middle of a green valley entirely surrounded by mountains, and the country is really extraordinarily beautiful. There are only Germans in the pension, most of them exceptionally nice, so it has been a wonderful opportunity for me to learn the German language. I have all my meals with them including breakfast and tea, and have made a great deal of progress. I study German grammar every morning and in the afternoons we often take trips into the country. I am here with a great friend of mine who is making quite a reputation for himself as a landscape painter. He is a delightful person to be with and we have had an awfully good time together going to all the peasant dances and learning them all and laughing at the new comers from the north trying to catch on.
We are living quite in the country but the small town of Berchtesgaten is only … continues
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