| Contents | four days ago he arrived in Frankfurt; he has moved into the house of the Spohr family, the father died in the war; Mrs. Spohr reminds him of aunt Lene [Magdalene Hertz], both from Hesse; the family is very musical, related to the composer [Louis] Spohr; there are four children, Erich, Irene, Kurt, Vera; they have a cousin, Änne Hutter, very good singer, from Leipzig, knows [Alfred and Anna] Doren; there is another lodger, from India, Mullak; Mullak has a grammophone, plays it all weekends, dances; Max Adolph fears that he will have to learn dancing; on his studies, does not want to choose a topic for his PhD before Christmas; [Karl] Reinhardt has admitted Max Adolph into his seminar; Max Adolph also likes another teacher, the philologist [Walter] Otto; continues on 17/11/1923: he feels very much at home; is too lazy to visit [Rudolf] Kautzsch, Edingers, [Heinrich und Gertrud] Embden; the next day he will visit Reinickes, the friends of [Peter Paul] Braden's, through whom he found his digs in Frankfurt; Schubring's daughter is studying for her PhD with Reinhardt, the other philology students are not very exciting; uncle Max [Warburg] wrote that he was going to the USA for two weeks; likes his new digs, has hung up his own pictures, reproductions from the Uffizi; the maid is called Apollonia or Lonni; there is another lodger as well, an American called Sweety; enjoyed a performance of Schiller's 'Kabale und Liebe', is very impressed, Schiller has an affinity to Dostoyevsky; he went with the group of archaeology students under Professor Schrader to a bronze foundry, Herovitz, and was impressed with the technical and practical work; had to think of Verocchio and his workshop |