I ask you a favour; my young friend Candida KranoldPKranold, Candida, dt. Physikerin, Tochter von Sophie und Hermann Kranold just wrote me that Hermann KranoldPKranold, Hermann, 1888–1942, dt. Ökonom, verh. mit Sophie Steinhaus, Kunsthistorikerin and his wifePKranold, Sophie, geb. Steinhaus, ??–1942, dt. Kunsthistorikerin died one after another by heart attacks (fortunately without any pain) in a few days distance. She is a physicist and has brother and sister, both children. She just passed examinations, and wants to study, perhaps, philosophy (FeiglPFeigl, Herbert, 1902–1988, öst.-am. Philosoph, seit 1931 verh. mit Maria Feigl, I shall write to him). As far as I can see, no money help is needed – she has a job, but some suggestions would be very helpful. Please be kind enough to write her and to ask her, whether you can help her with suggestions or introductions. She is very clever and full of energy and I have no doubt she will go on very well.
KranoldsPKranold, Hermann, 1888–1942, dt. Ökonom, verh. mit Sophie Steinhaus, Kunsthistorikerin were not too happy at TalladegaaTaladega College, separated from the “world”, as you may imagine. As I told you, I visited them and lectured once there. A nice campus, a nice house, but really a kind of island, and sometimes very hot. The relations betweenbto negroes and whites, of course, not without difficulties. Life is hard and difficult on an average.
He was a very brave man, always and I estimated his uprightness – she was clever and helpful. They loved one another very much. Less and less people remain, who can talk with me on common past …How many died just in the last years, some in concentration camps or in Nazi prison, some committed suicide. We are glad that the most of our friends are somewhere in the Anglo-Saxon world, even very distant, but reachable.
We are just moving. Our landlord needs the house. We found another one well furnished with garden round the corner. Smaller rooms, but one more, that is an advantage, because sometimes friends stay with us and we have our own studio with library.
We are making one animated diagram sequence after another, charts for books, writing, reading, etc. We are as happy as possible in so sad a time. We hear good news of PaulPNeurath, Paul, 1911–2001, öst.-am. Soziologe, Sohn von Anna Schapire-Neurath (1877–1911) und Otto Neurath, he got a fellowship and succeeds in his studies. Joseph FrankPFrank, Josef, 1885–1967, öst.-schwed. Architekt is now in New York, too.
I wrote Philipp FrankPFrank, Philipp, 1884–1966, öst.-am. Physiker und Philosoph, verh. mit Hania Frank, Bruder von Josef Frank to finish his FreundlichPFinlay–Freundlich, Erwin, 1885–1964, dt.-brit. Physiker job, introduction and closing words – Ica think a few words on FreundlichPFinlay–Freundlich, Erwin, 1885–1964, dt.-brit. Physiker should be said. I suggested to change the title, into, about FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMICAL MEASUREMENT or something like that. Please 🕮{}talk it over with MorrisPMorris, Charles W., 1901–1979, am. Philosoph, verh. mit Trude Morris, who will get a letter from me very soon. I am writing my monograph with intensity, I have a multiple of pages together and I am now selecting the main points carefully, looking through the newest literature. I am very happy in doing so, buying books and discussing with friends many problems of Logical Empiricism, Visual Education etc.
I am a little depressed, that, as far as we can judge, even in Vienna, not a few people, of whomdwhich we did not expect it, have certain sympathies with the Nazis. Not that they are Nazis, but they think, something is very well done, e. g. the Jews are persecuted etc., terrible. And other things, too. In all cases after the war it will be there a sad situation. Whom you may trust? But life is always a complex and sad thing, only certain islands of happiness and now we compare these islands with the rest …Sometimes we feel rather ashamed of our happy life (in spite of all the sorrow and all sadness in our life, too, but that is human fate). Look, we are not idle now, we can help to fight the Nazis in doing some work for the Ministry-of-Information films etc. The primitive life as far as eating, sleeping etc. is concerned is OK, the food situation is really very good. You see we have no food ideals, therefore we adapt ourselves to all the changes and therefore we enjoy this life. Through months we got sufficient milk and could drink it as sour milk (here unknown and despised).
I hope to get your semantics soon, did you register it?
I should like to get issues from American philosophical and scientific periodicals. Have you any opportunity to provide such stuff for me? Waldemar KaempffertPKaempffert, Waldemar, 1877–1956, am. Wissenschaftsjournalist und Museumsdirektor, Vetter von Otto Neurath is very nice in sending me interesting odd numbers of periodicals, pamphlets etc. and I feel already comfortable surrounded by reprints, periodicals, books etc.
With kindest regards from both of us, to both of you,
