Letters

Letter undated from John Bauer to Ester Ellqvist, consisting of three pages written on the front and back of a folded sheet of paper. Main writing handwritten in red ink. The letter is unfinished and lacks signature. The style of hand suggests John Bauer as a sender. .. LETTER TRANSCRIPT: .. [Page 1] Esther. It is now evening. The weather is hazy and quiet [?] but with warm [?] shimmer. It is glimpsed [exceeded word] Athelien has [destroyed: a sow own innumerable] mood at dusk . The Jutland weave is so hot and the Dürerska kop parstick to act so game- malt greedy and soothing in their dark frames. Tuning af last year autumn is. I have been lying on my reindeer Traps. I have sought dream- home about wilderland with with at bogs and dowels [Inscribed and Constructed: Myck] moss. I have sought singing [?] about hvita knoty, crooked tubular tubular hooks [inscribed in the row: ---iga [?] .. [Page 2] down at the bog edge up on the mountain slope I have sought to feel fragrance af moist, and young leaf. [Constructed letter] I [Constructed: sought] [Inscribed: dromma] [Constructed: same] thin late [Constructed word] air [inscribed: ------- [?]] [coated: spe--- [?]] about mine a head. In the evening it does not go. It is autumn twilight from last year now. I would go not sitting on my old court and writing to dough. Now as then. Has a year passed? [Constructed Word] It is an old --- [?] hard copy stranger Mej among all the scraper on my [partially exceeded word] t-ra [?] ritb [?] [exceeded: J] You probably never have seen it. It’s me [destroyed: sooner] autumn one year ago Do you see [exceeded: the] my old wooden lamp [?] That’s how it hangs [the overdraft: everything] yet Didn’t I ask and harrowing. [exceeded word] ally [?] ignorance of the fate shall attach mej. Now I have such a feeling that speak of that image About sun and shark and dough. [exceeded: af] About gold shimmering minutes in grandunkel in an archipelago sun. On Wilderness and [Constructed: wildmarks] and urtime. About Old Old Old Old Springs, ki- [?] and about deep deep spruce clear lakes