| Contents | is sorry to read that uncle Max [Rosenbacher] has to spend a few more weeks in Frankfurt; asks whether his health still has not improved; Warburg asks about Charley [Rosenberg], Aby [S. Warburg] and aunt Mali [Amalie Goldschmidt]; lists the names of members of his 'circle': H. Nippen, F. Scheidt, Paul Ruben, H. May, Johannes Calinich, Aby Warburg, Otto Hartz, Adolf Schultz, Wilhelm Kiesselbach, Johannes Sieveking, John [Johann Nicolaus] Hertz; lists the names of 'guests': Gelderblom, cand.med., Ankal, stud.phil., [Friedrich] Ehlers, stud.jur., [Edmund?] Kelter, stud.phil., [Rudolf] Sander, stud.theol. and two bookdealers; the members meet daily in the afternoon to play skat and twice weekly in the evening; whatever is won when playing cards and a small membership fee is set aside for the carneval fund which finances expenses to mount carneval pranks; [Wilhelm] Kiesselbach, Sieveking and John Hertz are very good 'Hamburg Füchse' [rank in the student fraternity]; on his studies, mentions Professors [R.?] Kekulé, Carl Justi, Karl Lamprecht, Henry Thode; the circle went to Ahrtal, to Cologne, where Hertz and Warburg heard Götze sing in the opera 'Lohengrin'; P. Ruben thanks Warburg's parents for their congratulations; sends greetings to all the family, 'Franzbranntziska' etc. |