Mr. et Mme Steinhardt Les Neriedes Actea No. 85 06350 Golfe- Juan France 7th March 1980 Dear Phil Many thanks for your letter and we both had great joy with it. I thank you for your wishes, but unfortunately I am very, very sick, and it is a matter of many months before I shall not be an invalid as I am now. I have lost nearly 45lbs, look like a skeleton, have difficulty to eat, difficulty to go to the lav and can walk about 300 - 400 yards at the utmost. I am weak like a kitten. Even to write this letter is a big effort for me. I get so easily breathless. My heart is just old and tired and is being kept by medicine, but this medicine is also a bit of poison. Poor Granny is absolutely finished with looking after me. I cannot do any shopping, I have not been for months to Cannes. I am nearly 74 and at that age anything can happen. I found your letter very moving. I can understand you very much. If by any miracle I should get better you could come to us. But I doubt it, because if things
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