Letter from Marie Laurencin, Paris, to Paul Rosenberg, 1955 March 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

She finally has the apartment back thanks to Maurice Garçon. There's a lot of work to do when one moves in. Since the previous residents were thrown out, they destroyed a lot of things--gas, electricity, water--and they stole her bathroom sink. She thinks it's all going to cost her a lot of money. They were very rich and didn't want to leave her apartment. Until she moves, she's camping out in her old place with Suzanne, and she has a bus that goes direct to her studio, where she can work a little. Her health is fragile because of the cold. Mr. Plocque, a notary, has her will. André Salmon has just had Souvenirs perdus published by the Nouvelle Revue Française. In it he speaks a lot about Apollinaire, Picasso, Max Jacob, and others, whom he knew well. There is a little bit about her. She mentions that Doréval wrote an article about Nicolas de Stael praising him so highly that it made her predict his fate. She says that you can't tell a young painter that he's greater than Manet. She rarely goes out, not even to the movies to see Les Diaboliques. Note at the end: [She attended] a rare lunch given twice a year by Florence Gould. [Jean] Paulhan and Marcel Aymé were there. He's nice, but he doesn't talk much.