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It is impossible to get these letters here2 in German. Travellers cannot carry big books about, so I send this tiny little one3, which contains all the preserved letters of a young man4 who died at thirty-one. They are rather heart-breaking, 2 these letters, when one thinks of all that lay behind them. (I like to think that if you had been living in his time you would have seen what the others did not see, and would have helped him.) But put all the hardships and disappointments together in one heap, and match against it all the lovely things he made in fifteen years,— can one then say that he had an unhappy life? Being hungry wouldn't matter much if one's mind were blooming every day like that, would it?
Happy Birthday5, dear and noble artist. God send you many years of achievement and happiness.
Your loving and grateful Aunt Willa Yehudi Menuhin1