| Contents | downstairs, in the dining room, some 20 young gentlemen have a good time with drinking beer and singing; the reason: their friend [Consul General Max von] Wilmersdörffer has sent them a barrel of beer, 'Salvatorbier', c. 32 litres; [Paul] Ruben, Dr. Voigt, [Carl?] Melchior, Dr. Schreiber [S. von Schreiber?], Otto Cohen, [von der] Porten, Otto and Edu Goldschmidt, Robert Götz, Ingenieur [August?] Jacobsen are among the guests, [Hans] Nirrnheim has cancelled; father is sitting amongst them, but does not drink out of a glass, but out of a porcelain cup so that nobody can see how little he is drinking; Warburg can send his congratulations to Walter Robinow, he is very happy; Mrs. Marianne Spiro lives at Neuerwall 26, Hamburg; Georges Siegmund Warburg was in Hamburg for two days, he brought his sister Lilly who is at school in Hamburg; the next day Olga will have the first sitting, Mary Hertz wants to paint her; Olga Warburg is very interested in art; on an exhibition by Ernst Oppler in Kunsthalle, [Max] Klinger's etchings on songs by [J.] Brahms; [Louis] Bock shows a collection of paintings by Edward Munch, 'the most fantastic modern painting imaginable'; should she send Warburg newspaper cuttings from Hamburg newspapers?; next day Felix Warburg will arrive in Hamburg; they cannot find any suitable house on the Elbe; the mother of [Emma] Louise von Portheim (married to her uncle Marcus Moritz Goldschmidt), Bertha von Portheim, has died; asks him to send condolences to Louise von Portheim, Frankfurt, Praunheimerstrasse 28 and since Bertha von Portheim was also the sister of Benedict Moritz Goldschmidt, he also has to write to Frankfurt, Praunheimerstrasse 26; grandmother wrote that the Albert Dessoff engagement is off; is pleased that Warburg has not travelled to Rome for the Easter period as it is full of people |