8 May was your birthday, 25 years Hence this nice book (tell me what you think of it) To many years of friendship, learning and coffee. Kisses, Elske (?)Dear Skayne,
Thanks Veen! I think I might append your translation to the book. I guess Skayne wasn't particularly taken by the book - or perhaps he/she had a dramatic falling out with this Elske figure, and had to get rid of it to forget. A mystery we'll never know the answer to! It reminds me of a possibly apocryphal story about George Bernard Shaw, who found a copy of one of his own plays in a second-hand shop, and discovered it was a copy he himself had given to a friend with the inscription "With esteem, G B Shaw." So he bought and sent it to them again, adding "With renewed esteem, G B Shaw."