Though brief, this chapter is one of the most emotionally moving in the entire collection of the Stravinsky–Boulanger correspondence. Boulanger completed her final tour of the United States in the early months of 1939, while Stravinsky toured, composed, and watched as his wife's tuberculosis worsened. Boulanger's triumph with the Dumbarton Oaks Concerto in May 1938 encouraged her to engage in far more ambitious projects on Stravinsky's behalf, including attempting to secure a commission for Stravinsky's Symphony in C. She also began to advocate for his nomination to the post of Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard University. Unfortunately, as the letters from 1939 reveal, Boulanger's optimistic zeal was no match for the crushing economic realities of the Great Depression, and the Symphony in C project fell through, though the Norton Chair project was a success. Stravinsky's distracted letters, though few in this chapter, speak of his need for money. No doubt anxieties over his wife's health made matters worse. Boulanger was abroad when news reached her of Catherine's death (March 2, 1939), and I have included in this edition five of Boulanger's letters to the family in response (March 4–15, 1939). Her concern over the Stravinskys’ welfare, especially the children, is quite profound, and subsequent letters to Igor Stravinsky wove sympathies alongside business affairs. Denise Strawinsky appears in this chapter twice, informing Boulanger of the state of the family after March 1939. At that point, the Stravinskys had been cleft in two. One group remained in Paris while the others recuperated at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Eastern France. Indeed, in this uncertain time, it became difficult for Boulanger to contact Stravinsky, with one of her letters (May 11, 1939) requiring redirection three times before finally reaching the composer. On September 3, 1939, France declared war on Germany. Three months later, Soulima Stravinsky wrote to Boulanger from Cosne, France, where he had been stationed after being mobilized as part of the French Army (December 21, 1939).