Moor wants to know whether you are coining here for Easter as we would all so very much like. In that case he would not send you the Bluebooks. Please drop us a line to say whether you are coming. Then we could take the thing to the parcels company on Monday. I have just posted your article. Chaley [Karl] is very busy with the Kars papers and is dictating to a somewhat seedy-looking Pieper. What do you make of the scandals in Berlin? Have you read the report from the Berlin correspondent in today’s Times? Now we know the reason for the Kreuz-Zeitung’s sackcloth-and-ashes leaders.
So they imagine that, without sending me a legal inventory and without having the papers valued, they can appropriate them by a coup de main. I strongly suspect that my brother, fired by patriotic zeal, promptly presented the manuscripts to the State, the more so in view of my mother’s letter, in which she tells me she had already written to them about the value of the papers — and asked what they intended to do with them. Their silence is very peculiar. He believes that I, like the rest of my submissive sisters, will simply leave everything to him, the mighty ‘Cheeef’ of the family. But there he’s mistaken.
I have begun by making ‘discreet inquiries’ so that bit by bit I can lay claim to my ‘property’.
I shall be curious to see what they answer. With Berlin in its present state of excitation it would be very easy for us to create a scandal. But out of consideration for my mother we shall tread somewhat cautiously before we start one.
We hope to see you here next week.