I hope that your crossing was pleasant enough and did not make you regret too much the "Normandie". I also hope and trust that you found your cases of iron safely deposited in your cabin at Cherbourg and that with the consular invoices which we sent you, you will have had the minimum of disturbance to get them through the custom in Philadelphia.
The oil painting by Cezanne: "Léda et le cygne" is being shipped to the Barnes Foundation, in bond to Philadelphia, per S.S. "Pipestone County" of the American