| Ref No | WIA GC/32525 |
| Title | Warburg, Aby to Warburg, Mary 29/09/1913 |
| Writer | Warburg, Aby |
| Place1 | [Baden-Baden] |
| Recipient | Warburg, Mary, styled 'Mieke' |
| Place2 | [Hamburg] |
| Date | 29/09/1913 |
| DateNote | Fc, second letter of the day |
| Format | manuscript |
| Contents | apologizes for delay in correspondence; hopes that [Paul] Sudeck is doing well after his operation; it is a pity that [Heinrich] Embden is not in Hamburg [to look after the Warburg family], when Warburg is not in Hamburg; thanks Wilhelm [Hertz] for forwarding an article by [Gustav] Schiefler [on the university question]; [Eduard] Spranger's treatise, however, is not refuted by it: 'the Colonial Faculty is an amateurish emergency exit'; Hamburg has to have a university and a Colonial Institute; likes Max Adolph's letter; Mary's complaints that Warburg wastes his time with complaining to the post office gives him the opportunity to raise a number of issues; he respects the 'ethos of order', he has to complain about one postage stamp, otherwise he would lose his belief in the fight against chaos; he has to fight for the free development of his personality, which had to burst the walls of the ghetto; years ago Mary helped him in this endeavour, like a courageous comrade; these two acts were successful; but the third act of feeling for each other has become controversial; should he value her interest in him only as a sign of the irritated sympathy of a woman?; would she have behaved in the same way if Warburg had tried to save a factory producing artificial fertilizer? [Johann Nicolaus Hertz's factory]; he doubts it, as Mary herself is an artist, therefore 'instrument and weapon in the fight for form'; but she does not nurture this quality, she does not share his joy of his library; for her and his children he is merely a troublesome man who needs to be pitied; she ought to teach the children the beauty of his life's work just as much as she teaches the children love of nature; love of nature and scholarship both emanate from one's will; they are not unbridgeable contrasts; finds her ungrateful; her friendship with him obliges her to have sympathies only for those who wish 'to leave the lowlands of banal sexuality' in order to rise up to 'dance the 'Platonic round dance'; talks of immature affairs, the fight against chaos, bringing dishonour to one's finest feeling of empathy, complains about her attitude, that of a good-natured bourgeois with a 'banal lust for action'; he is interested in finding a way for keeping up their friendship; she will not find him a man showing his old openness unless she has stopped her sentimentality completely; they cannot ignore it, because Mary has permitted herself a 'banal faux pas' behind his back [hinting at Paul Gustav Hübner]; it is still easy to tear out the roots of their misunderstandings |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/289 | Hertz; Johann Nicolaus (1869-1908) | 1869-1908 |
| DS/UK/287 | Hertz; Wilhelm (17/07/1873-16/09/1939); Dr. iur. | 17/07/1873-16/09/1939 |
| DS/UK/642 | Schiefler; Gustav (28/12/1857-09/08/1935); Dr. iur. | 28/12/1857-09/08/1935 |
| DS/UK/646 | Warburg; Max Adolph (10/07/1902-22/10/1974); Dr. phil. | 10/07/1902-22/10/1974 |
| DS/UK/416 | Embden; Heinrich (19/03/1871-03/04/1941); Dr. med. | 19/03/1871-03/04/1941 |
| DS/UK/955 | Warburg; Mary, née Hertz (13/10/1866-04/12/1934) | 13/10/1866-04/12/1934 |
| DS/UK/1590 | Hübner; Paul Gustav (29/06/1888-); Dr. phil. | 29/06/1888- |
| DS/UK/1759 | Spranger; Eduard | |