| Contents | enthusiastic report about his trips, first Sauerland, Lahntal, then Danube, Bodensee, Ulm, finally Trier, Maria Laach and Rhein; thanks her for financing his trips; he could not write to Warburg in time for his birthday, heard from Ritter that Warburg was not well; retells the episode when he bought Wisser's 'Märchen' and left this volume and his Dehio in the Liebfrauenkirche in Trier; he went to the verger, gave him Mark 10, and asked him to forward it if he finds the books; in Maria Laach he managed to paint a watercolour to send to Warburg; [sketch of the watercolour on page 3 of letter]; thanks Mary for a card and for having sent his summer suit; is very sorry about the news of [Heinz] Cassirer's fall in the Alps [Allgäu Mountains]; was supposed to go on this walking tour with Cassirer and [Ernst] DelBanco, but chose to join the tour to Trier, not only for scholarly, but also for reasons of getting to know his new colleagues; got on very well with a student called [Werner] Technau; Hans [Hertz] was also in Trier, but Max Adolph does not find him congenial company; complains how silly he is, how loud, etc.; is enthusiastic about [L.] Curtius, full of intellectual vitality, admires him, is only two years younger than Warburg; mentions [Friedrich] Schuchardt, Tuchmann; continues next day: [L.] Curtius and his wife have invited Max Adolph to have dinner in thier house, Palais Weimar; he also invited [Robert] Heidenreich, an archaeology student, who is a member of a student fraternity; likes the house, the hospitality, Mrs. Curtius, who is Curtius's second wife; mentions Technau, who has also been invited to Curtius's once; Curtius has a few works of art from antiquity and tests his guests to tell him what a particular fragment shows; mentions [Adolf] Furtwängler; Max Adolph and Technau will visit Bruchsal and Maulbronn over the weekend; there were some 40 people on the trip to Trier, half of them 'ladies', which annoyed Max Adolph; liked an Austrian called Fahrner, a Russian Ostrogowsky; describes the programme of the tour, they visited the cathedral in Trier, Porta Nigra, Nennig near the Luxembourg border, Bollendorf, museum in Trier, amphitheatre, Roman baths, etc.; Technau and Max Adolph visited an old basilica, a church built on a former building, the apse had seven niches, which he finds strange; wants to ask Warburg; did not see any reference to planets, though; Koblenz, Maria Laach, Mainz; is very taken with his trip; mentions Professor [Richard] Hamann from Marburg, who had just returned from Greece and showed them fabulous photographs, from Olympia; is sorry that the Frede could not go on her trip to Solling because she has hurt her foot; can she attend the Falke dance lessons?; Max Warburg has written to him, wanted to have Max Adolph's impressions of Warburg |