| Content | Vladimír Vaněk thanks Charlotte Martinů for her letter of 5 February. ChM apparently travels a lot. If he is in Prague, he should ask for a portrait of Bohuslav Martinů. It was a pencil drawing, VV describes it further. VV took it in Paris when BM was staying with him, around 1926. It was BM's best portrait. According to the writer's brother, this portrait was lost when they left Prague in 1948. They didn't take care of their belongings after they left then, and anyone could have stolen something - they lost a painting by Gino Severini, for example. However, they did find various things, including a book by Charles Baudelaire at the home of the writer's nephew Rebane. They only have these things thanks to Václav Hanno Jarek, who asked for them everywhere. Their former cook, who still lives in the house on Slunná Street, took many things. That's why ChM is supposed to go to VHJ first. He's an excellent musician and critic, a fan of BM and a good friend of the writer. VHJ then asks his sister-in-law Libuše, who speaks perfect French, to help Charlotte in the conversation. VV gives Jarek's address. He adds the contact of his brother Mirek. However, he is more difficult to reach than VHJ. If the portrait is found, ChM is to take it out of the frame and take it with him.
The news about Rudolf Firkušný has been interesting. VV in turn knows that Rafael Kubelík is angry with RF precisely because of RF's rapprochement with Prague.
ChM is supposed to say hello to the Brads if he sees them.
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