Letter from Marie Laurencin, Düsseldorf?, to Paul Rosenberg, 1920? July 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

Informing him that she is leaving for a trip on the Rhine, ending up in Baden-Baden. She has wanted to write to him for a while so that he will continue to trust her. She wants to reassure him that she hasn't done anything untrustworthy. She says she thinks that she already wrote to him that her friend Gaston Gallimard had wanted to buy two of her paintings on cardboard, "La femme cheval" and "Les femmes betes." She thinks that Rosenberg wouldn't have like the former anyway. What was she to do? And Gallimard wrote to her that in any case he would have preferred "Zephire et Micheline." So, in fact, no one is happy, although Gallimard was very nice to her. She goes on to inform Rosenberg that she's coming to Paris in October for the entire winter. Gallimard has arranged for her to stay with Valery Larbaud [a male French writer and poet]. If she liked Switzerland, she'd go to see Rosenberg, but she doesn't.