SUNDAY, JULY 11, 1943
Dear Kitty,
to get back to t of ceentime), let me tell you t Im doing my best to be o do all I can to keep to a ligs not easy trying to be stand, especially . But I can see t a little s me a lot furtly en forget my role and find it impossible to curb my anger mont impertinent girl in t you to be pitied sometimes? Its a good t type, because t become sour and bad-tempered. I can usually see t its easier whe coals.
Furter a great deal of t) to drop t, so t I ime for my ots, and second, because of my eyes. ts a sad story. Ive become very nearsighted and should have had glasses ages ago.
(Ug I look like a dope!). But as you know, people in . . .
Yesterday all anyone alk about ed I go to t his made my
knees s no small matter. Going outside! Just t, reet! I cant imagine it. I rified at first, and t its not as simple as all t; ties o reac o carefully o set off immediately oime, Id taken my gray coat from t, but it looked as if it migo my little sister. e lo I still couldnt button it.
Im really curious to see t a plan, because tis for a quot;quick finish.”
Beps been giving Margot and me a lot of office o do. It makes us botant, and its a big o ters and make entries in a sales book, but h remarkable accuracy.
Miep o carry so scrounge up vegetables, and turday. e long for Saturdays because t means books. ere like a bunctle kids . Ordinary people dont know o someone whos cooped up.
Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the radio.
Yours, Anne
tUESDAY, JULY 13, 1943
t Little table Yesterday afternoon Fato ask Mr. Dussel o use table in our room ternoons a o five-ty. I already sit ty to four t of time table are off-limits to me. Its impossible to study next door in ternoon, because too mucimes likes to sit at ternoon.
So it seemed like a reasonable request, and I asked Dussel very politely. do you tlemans reply ;No.quot; Just plain quot;No!”
I about to let myself be put off like t. I asked he
reason for ;No,quot; but t get me anyudy too, you kno do t in ternoons, I be able to fit it in at all. I o finisask Ive set for myself; ot in starting. Besides, you arent serious about your studies. Myt kind of ? Reading and knitting dont count eit table and Im not going to give it up!”
I replied, quot;Mr. Dussel, I do take my study next door in ternoons, and I e it if you !”
ed Anne turned around and pretended tor t t Dussel ainly Id been very polite.
t evening, old my next step sention of giving up and preferred to deal ter myself. Pim gave me a rougo approac cautioned me to until t day, since I ed for Dussel after tting next door and t .
I began, quot;Mr. Dussel, you seem to believe furtter is pointless, but I beg you to reconsider.”
Dussel gave me c;Im alo discuss tter, even ts already been settled.”
I on talking, despite Dussels repeated interruptions. came here,”
I said, quot; to be so divide it fairly, youd ire morning and Id ire afternoon! Im not asking for t muc ternoons a o me.”
Dussel leapt out of on a pin. quot;You alking about your rigo to go? Maybe I should ask Mr.
van Daan to build me a cubbytic. Youre not t find a quiet place to , o o me , Id never even of refusing, but you. . .”
And once again up t tting, and once again Anne ed. and let Dussel finish:
quot;But no, its impossible to talk to you. Youre sered. No one else matters, as long as you get your er all is said and done, Ill be obliged to let you people saying later on t Anne Frank failed o relinquisable!”
on and on until there was such a deluge of words I could hardly keep up.
For one fleeting moment I t, quot;; But t moment I t, quot;Calm doting so upset about!”
At long last Mr. Dussel s fury , and triump pockets bulging h food.
I running over to Fated tire story, or at least ts been able to folloalk to Dussel t very same evening, and than half an hour.
t discussed able, yes or no.
Fat once before, at to contradict t of t t, even t t it I to talk as if ruder laying claim to everyt. But Fatested strongly, since ion back and fort;selfis; and my quot;busy; and Dussel grumbling time.
Dussel finally o give in, and I ed tunity to interruption ternoons a speak to me for to five-ty -- all very childish, of course.
Anyone ic at ty-four o change.
FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1943
Dearest Kitty,
t time a real one! Peter doo t seven, as usual, and noticed at once t bothe
door ed to Pim, o te office, tuned to a German station and locked t back upstairs. In suc to o be quiet, to be dressed by eig to go to t; and as usual o tter. e so airs tire morning; Mr. Kleiman left us on tenteril eleven-ty. old t tside door and t ealing, tried t floor. tole tire allotment. It be easy to wangle new ones.
Mr. Kugler to ttempt six o open all tside doors).
tir, but to tement.
Naturally, er and typeers ucked a.
Yours, Anne
PS. Landing in Sicily. Anotep closer to the . . . !
MONDAY, JULY 19,1943
Dearest Kitty,
Norterdam deal of destruction. Entire streets are in ruins, and it ake a all two less wounded;
tals are bursting at told of cs. It still makes me so tant drone t signified truction.
FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1943
Bep is currently able to get ebooks, especially journals and ledgers, useful for my bookkeeping sister! Ot dont ask . At t t;No Coupons
Needed!quot; Like everyt ration stamps, totally of t slant across t is t taking a course in calligrapo go a. Mot let me because of my eyes, but I ts silly. or somet all comes doo thing.
Since youve never been tty, and since you knotle about life in e of my letters, let me tell you, just for fun, o do first side again.
Margot and Mr. van Daan o t seeing te, and Moto visit Mr. Voskuijl, Peter o know wo begin.
Most of all I long to o be able to move around freely and last. In oto go back to school!
Bep o get us some fruit, at so-called bargain prices: grapes 2.50 guilders a pound, gooseberries 70 cents a pound, one peacs, melons 75 cents a pound. No e every evening in big, fat letters: quot;Keep Prices Down!”
MONDAY, JULY 26, 1943
Dear Kitty,
Yesterday umultuous day, and ill all ually, you may passes some kind of excitement.
t off in t breakfast, but tention, because it only meant t t. I errible er breakfast and t to t around two.
At ty Margot gatogetrooped back upstairs.
None too soon, it seems, for less tes later t and stood in t
falling. I c;escape bag,quot; more because I ed to o o ted to run a leave if reets as dangerous as getting cauger o ivity again. Peter emerged from post in t attic, Dussel remained in t office, Mrs. van D. felt safest in te office, Mr. van Daan c, and t to cside it looked as if ty hick fog.
A big fire like t is not a pleasant sig fortunately for us it baCk to our various c as arting dinner: anot I lost my appetite t I he siren.
Noty-five minutes later the all clear was sounded.
After t;O; , quot;ts t; , quot;ts too many.quot; Little good t did us, because once agai time on ty. According to Britiss, Sc ime I kept t; comes, t.”
I can assure you t o bed at nine, my legs ill s troke of midnig I took no notice and leapt up, t s. I stayed in Fatil one, in my oil one-ty, and two.
But t on coming. At last topped firing and I o go back quot;; again. I finally fell asleep at two.
Seven oclock. I aart and sat up in bed. Mr. van Daan her.
My first t ;Everyt; I everytolen. But no, time it .
e jumped for joy. After ts of yesterday, finally someto the war, hope for peace.
Mr. Kugler dropped by and told us t t factory hard.
Meano , and the
last t to do is no Italy and t the year are keeping us awake. .
Yours, Anne
thURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943
Dearest Kitty,
Mrs. van Daan, Dussel and I remely quiet. to notice, so in order to avoid any questions, I quickly racked my brains for a neutral topic. I t treet mig t I couldnt have been more wrong; if Mrs.
van Daan doesnt jump do, Mr. Dussel does. It all boiled doo this:
Mr. Dussel o Margot and me as an example of excellent ing. e t it t. ttle boy rayed as for t. . . tter. I mentioned someto t effect able tirade.
quot;and t of a c so difficult [!]. But youre far too young to read a book like t. Even a ty-year-old man o compre.quot; (So to Margot and me?)
Mrs. van D. and Dussel continued t;You knooo muc t supposed to. Youve been brouger on, o enjoy anyt ty years ago in some book. Youd better to catco be a disappointment to you. You already knoo kno in practice? ts anotory!”
Can you imagine ? I astonis;You may t been raised properly, but many people would disagree!”
tly believe t good crying to pit me against my parents, since ts all t telling a girl my age about gros is fine. e can all see w way.
At t moment I could me. I o put up art counting the days.
Mrs. van Daans a fine one to talk! Ss an example all right -- a bad one!
So be exceedingly pusistical, cunning, calculating and perpetually dissatisfied. Add to t, vanity and coquettision about it:
se an entire book about Madame van Daan, and o. Mrs. van D. is friendly to strangers, especially men, so its easy to make a mistake to know her.
Mot Mrs. van D. is too stupid for t soo unimportant, Pim t soo ugly (literally and figuratively!), and after long observation (Im never prejudiced at to t ss more besides. Sraits, one of them?
Yours, Anne
P.S. ill take into consideration t tory ten before ters fury had cooled?