Letter from Marie Laurencin, Madrid, to Paul Rosenberg, 1915 March 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

Informing him that she has sent him three or four letters that he didn't receive. She hopes this one will reach him. She has been working all winter on paintings that she is going to send him: A little princess, a nude, self-portrait as a princess, woman with a guitar with a white bird, two women, and three girls in a Spanish landscape. She's not sending him an allegorical painting of three women because it's not completed. She says that Rosenberg doesn't realize that sending paintings in cases is a perilous affair, since the customs agents open the cases, look at the paintings, and do whatever they want with them. Fortunately, a Spanish [Mexican] Cubist painter who's going to Paris will take her paintings with him. The painter, Diego Rivera does nice work, and she bought one of his still lives, "almost as nice as a Picasso." She asks Rosenberg to apply the payment for the works she's sending him to her account. Laurencin says she doesn't need money in Spain--yet--but she must pay her rent in Paris on April 15 and asks Rosenberg to give her landlord 1100 or 1200 francs on her behalf. Laurencin says that life is becoming more normal for her. She was ill in November and December because of the war. She stopped eating and didn't want to open her eyes or walk. The proprietor of the hotel prepared excellent food for her, and two Spanish families with a French upbringing spoiled her and spent the evenings with her. She has been going to the home of her "hotesse de la Peinture," Miss Harvey, where she sees many elegant people. Mentions Hessel, to whom she must write.