"What must the censors think!"
Autograph letter signed ("Ludwig").
Trinity College, Cambridge, 4 Feb. 1947.
8vo. 2 pages.
€ 16,000.00
Unpublished letter, in German, to his sister Helene Salzer, née Wittgenstein: "Little Helene, my uncle! (What must the censors think!) […] I have not listened to music for a long time. I would like to hear Schumann quartets again. Recently I remembered the beginning of one quartet - the introduction - and was quite delighted. Unfortunately, two floors below my rooms someone is playing the piano & I am much disturbed by the miserable plunking (mostly Beethoven). Oddly, it sometimes almost prevents me from breathing […]" (transl.).
With censorship stamp.
References
Not in: McGuinness, R. Schweizer (ed.), Wittgenstein. Eine Familie in Briefen, Innsbruck and Vienna, 2018.
