To: gmax1@mindspring.com

From: Dr Maxwell

Sent: Thur 4/1/2004 4:15:17 PM

Subject: Fraytet document and the monthly pension you generously serve me

Darling,

I have not been well these last two days as I got something lodged in my left eye and could not see well in bright light nor at the computer screen as it hurts so much and gave me a headache. This explains you why I have not been able to send you the Fraytet document yet. Besides, my scanner is up the spout and only works when it feels like it losing a great deal of my time in the process and I could not manage to scan the document so I had to photocopy it and am still trying to send you the corresponding photos that are indispensable to understand the document.

Besides, I had the twins here, Isabel for a week and Christine for 2 days at the same time. It is always a great pleasure but puts me of my work stroke, because to begin with, Isabel is a vegetarian and so I have to cook special things for her and make salads etc, and she always comes home very late at night and we start talking and so I cannot get out of bed in the morning.

As for Christine, I lent her my car and she lost all my car papers, so I had to spend the whole morning not only trying to look in my own papers in case she would have left them here and then applying to the various organisations for duplicates. I was furious but what else can I do?

As for the money you so generously sent me, I want to ask you, Did you mean the £4000 which you sent me in lieu of Vonnic and my holidays to include the pension you serve me on a monthly basis?, because if that is so, then the boys will have to help me with the remaining 2 500 which I desperately needed to be able to pay my rent, to pay for my car passage to Fraytet in May (which I have got to boko now) and to buy the absolute necessities of life.

I am truly sorry to be such a schnorer , it is humiliating in the extreme but what else can I do? With the boys it is always magnana but what do they think I live on, I wonder?

I am trying to eke a meagre complement to what you give me but even that is not easy and is not so far coming regularly as yet...

Please do answer me rapidly because then I will have to take serious measures to make ends meet although I cannot think of what I will do yet!

With much love

Your maman