Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 27.01.1939

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 27.01.1939

Related places Warsaw, Zakopane

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues

Field philosophy

Tags #article, #article on hopelessness, #cigarettes, #critique of Kotarbiński, #depression, #essay on idealism, #idealism, #manuscript, #Maria Ingarden, #ontology, #pipe, #reply to the critique of Kotarbiński, #Roman Ingarden, #smoking, #spiritual presence, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Tadeusz Kotarbiński, #typescript, #war, #Warsaw, #Witkacy, #Zakopane

27. I 1939

Honoured and Dear Professor:

I heard that you were in Z[akopane] for the holidays. I regret that I have not seen you because I need your spiritual presence. I was in a state of severe depression. Please write to me whether you think that my rep[ly] to Kotarbiński’s critique was malicious, as well as comments at the end of the art[icle] on hopelessness. At the last moment, he reproached me over the phone. V[ery] sad, because he had not said anything about it for 2 years. Voilà une sorte de cachot[t]ier. [This is kind of secretive]

I am terribly mentally exhausted by my stay in W[arsaw] and recently I even smoked = horrible smut. Do not do it. I will stop, starting tomorrow until the war. May I ask you to send back to me in Zakopane this article about VCWK [Vicious Circle of the Wiener Kreis]. I want to start writing again and I need it. If possible, may I ask also for the essay on idealism. What are you currently doing? How is the ontology advancing? I would need this badly – couldn’t some sort of a manuscript be read?

I enclose words of respect and affection and gratitude to you and yours and greetings to your “progeny”.

S.I. Witkiewicz