Letter from Marie Laurencin, Paris, to Paul Rosenberg, 1939 December 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

She says that Albert Flament told her that in reference to the Christmas edition of L'Illustration, people are going to hate you even more. Armand [Loewengard] told her that she'd do better to paint some paintings for Rosenberg than to write to him. She says that one doesn't exclude the other, and his writing to her makes her work. People in Paris seem to be rushing to exhibitions. Zak et Cie[?] art critics who haven't been drafted are holding forth about art. Her model got a job in a factory. She's expecting a new one. The daughter of Eugene Montfort [an author who died in 1936] is coming to see her with her mother. They fled Paris to live in the country, and she isn't going to school. She is planning to visit Rosenberg on January 5.