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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
May 13, 1938
Dear Jones
Anna tells me she concludes from your last letter that you expect an answer to yours for my birthday, which is why I am writing—but also because I am sitting here in my study with nothing whatever to do and generally useless. We had decided not to take any notice of this birthday, to postpone it until the sixth of June, July, August and so on; in short to a date after our liberation, and in fact I haven't answered any of the letters, telegrams, etc. Now it looks as though we shall land in England in May after all. I say it “looks,” for in spite of all promises, uncertainty rules the day. With her touching devotion Princess Marie telephoned the day before yesterday to say she is planning to come to Vienna