Letter from Marie Laurencin, Paris, to Paul Rosenberg, 1951 December 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

She's been having difficulties since September, not because of her paintings, which are selling well, but because of income tax problems. Since E. de B. [Etienne de Beaumont] isn't paying his income tax, they're asking her for 300,000 francs, which she says she's not paying. The tax collector advised her to go back to her apartment since she owns it. At the present time Madame Maurice Garçon is living in it, among Rosenberg's paintings by Picasso, [Raaoul] Dufy, and even Laurencin. He has a copy of the Livre des petites filles, which is as hard to find as an apartment in Paris. She wants to be in her own place. Her contemporaries are finding it difficult to climb the three floors to her studio. She has to have 3 teeth pulled. [Her friend] Marguerite Yourcenar took three years to write a beautiful book, The Memoirs of Hadrian. She's in Paris at the moment. There's going to be an exhibition of 500 drawings of Jean Cocteau along with 2 tapestries, and his plays will be put on. Nothing is going on in Paris in literature, theater, or the cinema. She's hearing less about Tangiers, which was all the rage.