SAtURDAY, APRIL 1, 1944

    My dearest Kitty,

    And yet everytill so difficult. You do kno you? I long so muco kiss me, but t kiss is taking its o time. Does ill t I mean anything more?

    You and I bot Im strong, t I can carry most burdens alone. Ive never been used to so a mot Id love to lay my  sit tly.

    I cant, I simply cant forget t dream of Peters c too so say  me near  hing?

    Ive got to stop, Ive got to be calm. Ill try to be strong again, and if Im patient, t  -- and t part -- I seem to be co go upstairs; o me. But ts because of

    tands hink .

    Yours, Anne

    M. Frank

    MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1944

    My dearest Kitty,

    Contrary to my usual practice, Im going to e you a detailed description of tuation, since its become a matter of some difficulty and importance, not only  in all of holland, all of Europe and even beyond.

    In ty-one mont;food cyclesquot; -- youll understand  means in a moment. A quot;food cyclequot; is a period in able to eat. For a long time e not endive. Endive  sand, endive atoes, endive-and-masato casserole. t oes, sauerkraut, etc., etc.

    Its not muco eat, say, sauer- kraut every day for lunc  deligables at all.

    Our -pea soup, potatoes ato kugel and, by turnip greens or rotten carrots, and ts back to broage,  potatoes at every meal, starting , but ttle. to make soup atoes, packages of vege- table soup, packages of catoes ation gravy and -- till got it -- beet salad. I must tell y