\brief{Ina Carnap an Ernest Nagel, 23. Jänner 1935}{Jänner 1935}

%January, 23, 1935.

\anrede{Dear Dr. Nagel,}

\haupttext{Thank you very much for your letter of Jan.\,5th. I am returning the letter of Professor Coss\IN{\coss}; well, the chance seems to
be very little, but our whole America-plan is based on such little chances.

So far no answer from the Institute of Int. Education\II{\iie} whether they accept the arrangement for Carnap's lecture-tour.

Take our thanks also for your telling to your friend, Prof. Hook\IN{\hook}, about Carnap\IN{\carnap} our thanks. Though the chance of a longer
stay there is very little, Carnap\IN{\carnap} is glad that H[ook]\IN{\hook} knows about him and is also grateful for the advice not to show to
apparently that he is a ``Cultur Bolshevist''. But it seems not necessary to replace the lecture-title on the relation
between contemporary philosophy and culture by an other, because Carnap may speak about anything under this vague
title.

We had six fine days in the mountains; it was a real refreshment for body and soul (even if there is no soul).
Perhaps we shall go once more in February for some days.

Your reasons for a marriage in hurry are not very illuminating to me. Or better, I think you could go around the
difficulties in a better way. I do not think, that hotels really ask whether you are married or not, I do not think, they
trouble about. I remember, when the Hempel's\IN{\hempel} \IN{\hempelfrau} [sic] came to Prague for the Congress\II{\kongressphilosophieprag}, I took the room for them and asked the
proprietor of the hotel, whether there are difficulties for getting one room, if people are not married. And he laughed
very much about this idea, saying that he has no moral-control over his guests. But it might be, that in Italy or
France you have such difficulties. Why then not shorten your stay in these moral countries and return to more hospitable
fields? Sometimes you can avoid the difficulties by taking a private-room, not in a hotel. In England, no hotel will ask
for your passport (and besides that, two single rooms are not more expensive than one with two beds). In Tyrol --
where we hope to meet you -- you will not be asked for your passport. And finally Czechoslovakia is a place, where you
may live quite untroubled. If you do not marry in USA there is another difficulty (besides that they ask for a longer
residence): you have to pay a lot for the translation of your papers; and there are much more papers necessary than you
can ever dream! There are also difficulties if you and Edith\IN{\nagelfrau} have different religious confessions. When we married,
Carnap\IN{\carnap} without any c[onfession], and I was still a Roman-Catholic. And I could not marry him before I left the Church. The rules
are different in the countries. But I expect, it will be horrid everywhere.

Carnap\IN{\carnap} thinks \{also\}, that Popper\IN{\popper} overestimates the differences between his point of view and the positivistic
position \neueseite{} in order to accent his own position, and that he is ein einsamer und selbständiger Denker. This seems quite
unnecessary, because he has quiet enough own ideas, distinguishing und [sic] marking his standpoint. And it is quite
stupid, because he would have more success under the banners of the Wiener Kreis\II{\schlickzirkel}, quite well known and discussed now. And
in fact his ideas are of the same kind as those of the positivists, he fights against.

If we would have known before, that the picture where you and Carnap\IN{\carnap} had come on one film, would be an occasion for you
of digging up your inferiority-complexes, we would never have sent it!

Carnap\IN{\carnap} was very interested to hear your impression about the Schlick-meeting\II{\schlickzirkel}. And we are looking forward to your report
about the new manifestation of Wittgenstein\IN{\wittgenstein}.

I am addressing this letter to Vienna but I am hoping, that you are far away in a French sea-port, holding your lady in
your arms!

With warm greetings from us both,}

\grussformel{sincerely yours,\\
\blockade{ksl.}}

\ebericht{Brief, msl. Dsl., 2 Seiten, \href{https://doi.org/10.48666/870412}{RC 029-05-15}; Briefkopf: msl. \original{January, 23, 1935}.}
