Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 05.01.1939

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 5.01.1939

Related places Lviv, Zakopane

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues

Field philosophy

Tags #54th, #54th year of life, #affection, #cigarettes, #discussion, #financial problems, #lecture, #lecturing activity, #Lviv, #Maria Ingarden, #monadism, #New Year wishes #New Year, #philocophical work, #philosophical discussion, #philosophical ideas, #pipe, #Polish Philosophical Society, #PTF, #remarks, #Roman Ingarden, #sketch, #smoking, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Tadeusz Kotarbiński, #tax office, #thanks, #travel, #treasury chamber, #Witkacy, #Zakopane

5.I 1939
Honoured and Dear Professor:
Thank you very much for the letter and I apologize for the delay in replying. I accept all the remarks with an understanding to such an extent that I decided to construct the thing anew. This is the first sketch – it is stitched together and repeats itself. I will complete it with some detailed examples. Just as it is read this Monday at the local Philo[sophical] Soc[iety]. Maybe the discussion will give me new momentum. I already had discussions with Kotarbinski on this matter and some new complementary things came to me. Intern[ally] everything is fine with me, but because of the ravages of the Treasury Chamber, I am financially ruined. Maybe I will persevere. I’m going to Lviv in the spring – I did not take upon any of the various trip offers at all and that backfired. I did not do much regarding philosophy, I only had many “genius” ideas (some changes to my monadism, already imp[licit] in a given approach. Maybe I will do it – but to survive until the end of the 54th year of my life is, according to the old books, v[ery] difficult.
I enclose words of respect, affection and gratitude to you and I am asking to pass these on, as in the beginning, to your wife and the whole family, together with New Year wishes. This = ERFB 3W do you agree to this abbreviation? Around 15/20/I I am supposed to be in Z[akopane]. I am begging you, do not smoke. Recent tests have shown the entire abomination of S[moking].