I found this online:
Also in the Wolfe papers is an unpublished manuscript from around 1940 by John W. Weathermax that describes Frida (or Frieda, as she sometimes spelled it), then staying in San Francisco, as “The Queen of Montgomery Street.” Kahlo knew and loved San Francisco, although she disdained much else about American life.
Weathermax begins his sketch with a transcription of a phone conversation he had with Kahlo that vividly captures her playful and imperious character, as well as her slightly imperfect mastery of English:
“Come over right way. I, Frieda the First, command you!”
“But Frieda…I have already had supper.”
“Eat another.”
“But you made me eat two lunches.”
“I shall make you eat two breakfasts, too. I am the Queen. Do you hear?
Come to Montgomery Street at once.”
Click.
Her hurries over and up a lot of stairs. She scolds him:
You are bad. You are very bad. You took ten minutes to come."
"I hurried, Frieda. I ran the last block."
"Look at me. En the eyes. You did not run. The stairs made you out of breath."
a swish of her long silk skirt. a glimpse of bare feet in sandals but only a glimpse, for the skirt is very full
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