Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
224
SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
from America. He is the editor of the largest Swedish
newspaper. He has made me promise to write something for his
paper, and, as you know,11 can never see my friends at work
without wishing to do exactly what they are doing, so I have written
a number of short articles 2 for him. For the moment I have
only one of these personal reminiscences ready, but I send it
to you, as you understand Swedish so well. Fifthly (last, not
least), can you really believe, unlikely as it sounds, that I have
developed into an accomplished skater! At the end of last
week I was on the ice every day. I am so sorry you cannot see
how well I managed in the end. Whenever I have gained a
little extra dexterity I have thought of you. And now I can
even skate a little backward !! But I can go forward with great
facility and assurance!! All my friends here are astonished
how quickly I have mastered the difficult art. In order to
console myself a little, now that the ice has disappeared, I have
taken furiously to riding with my friends. In the few weeks of
the Easter holidays I intend to ride at least an hour every day.
I like riding very much. I really don’t know which I like best,
skating or riding. But this is by no means the end of all my
frivolities. There is to be a great fëte on April 15th. It is a
kind of fair or bazaar, and seems to be a very Swedish affair.
A hundred of us ladies will dress in costume and sell all sorts
of things for the benefit of the Public Museum. I am, of course,
going to be a gipsy, and equally of course a great guy. I have
asked five other young ladies to share my fate and help me.
We are to be a gipsy troupe, with tents, and our marshal/car,3
also in the costume of gipsy youths, to attend on us. We are
likewise to have a Russian samovår, and to serve tea from it.
Now what do you say to all this nonsense, dear Mr. H-1
This evening I am going to have a grand party in my own little
room, the first I have given since I have been in Stockholm.
In the spring of the year there was a suggestion
made that Sönya should lecture on mechanics during
the illness of Professor Holmgren.
i The italics have been added by the friend who sends the
letter.
s She had in reality written only one of the articles, but in her
vivid imagination what she intended doing was already done.
3 Appendix F.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
