| Contents | has posted his letters with the enclosure of Max Adolph's letter from Italy; requests acknowledgement; is waiting for post from Max Adolph, hopes that Frankfurt will not be occupied, etc.; on the mix up with cancelling or postponing [Heinrich] Embden's visit; calls it an intrigue by Binswangers to stop Embden's visit; is shocked, Hamburg is threatened with occupation; either Embden should come immediately or Warburg should return to Hamburg; requests a cable from Embden with the date of his arrival; Max Adolph sent a postcard that he will write a letter soon; all this agitates Warburg, drives him to desperation; is annoyed with Max Warburg's letter, why do the American brothers not come and help them?; complains about diabetes, wants to eat and drink all the time, has bad eyes; how could [Hjalmar] Schacht be appointed finance minister?; he has moved money abroad; thanks for the note on Bononi, very valuable to Warburg, the architect Camillo Agrippa [recte: Guilio Camillo] has written a book, 'L'idea del Tempio della natura' [recte: L'ideal del theatro], or was it written by another Camillo?; it shows a type of structural thinking which Cassirer would appreciate; requests that both sides of the Fortuna medal be photographed, it could be a good example for the polarity of Renaissance man; hates the Sundays in his 'madhouse'; is annoyed with Embden; requests from Mary to forward Max Adolph's letter from Florence; the political situation is bad, the demons in Kreuzlingen worse; is annoyed that Mary does not read his letters thoroughly enough, and excuses herself for having to go to chat with friends or to a concert; Mary should buy pencil leads; will Malice [Max and Alice Warburg] come to Switzerland again once Max [Warburg] will have returned from America?; requests bookplates, not in black print, but in green and lilac; requests yellow writing paper; one year and five weeks ago they celebrated their silver wedding, seven months ago he gave a lecture, but it did not bring him freedom; on the German political situation, mentions Stresemann, democrats are no longer credible, Centrum does not have a leader, the same goes for the Social Democrats; everything is lost, only hell is smiling; asks Mary to check his letters whether they have been opened by the sanatorium; tells Mary to give Saxl a large portrait photograph of Warburg, made by Dührkoop, so that he can show it to the people in the library who do not know Warburg; Warburg has sent a parcel with chocolates; greetings to Datzen [Marietta Warburg], Federchen [Frede Warburg], 'Bücherstube' [library staff] |