Feb. 1 Baghdad Dearest Mother. This is just to say that I'm so sorry to hear of Hugo's relapse but as Father's letter from London ends with a better account, I hope that is fairly behind you.
What you rightly describe as a riesenartizes book is I expect Michel's Histoire de l'Art. How I do wish I had the strength of mind to stop subscribing to it - it never seems to end. As soon as it does I'll sell it. Meantime will you please have the volume put in my room. If however it happens to be the Monuments Piot with the publication of two Sumerian statues in it, will you have it sent to me. I want it. The Monuments Piot would come from Paris so it will not be this I fear.

I'm perfectly well now and I'm going to Ur tomorrow which will be very nice. That's why I'm writing today instead of waiting till mail day.

I must tell you, it's rather droll, that I have an official photographer for the Dept of Antiquities in Mosul [Mawsil, Al], a gentleman from the Caucasus [Bol'shoy Kavkaz], the only common language we have is German in which we solemnly write to one another! He is better at photography than at German - so am I, for that matter, for I'm horribly rusty. Your very affectionate daughter Gertrude