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Letter to Kazimierz Twardowski written 19.05.1919

Author Roman Ingarden
Category outgoing correspondence, Polish researchers
Archive Joined Libraries WFiS UW, IFiS PAN and PTF
Date of creation 19.05.1919
Related places Cracow, Lublin, Warsaw
Reference code in archive PTF Rps 02.1, t. XII
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter organizational issues, personal issues, publication issues
Field philosophy
Tags #apology, #application, #Cracow, #Easter, #Easter holidays, #Jahrbuch, #Kazimierz Twardowski, #Lublin, #Lviv philosophers, #Lviv traditions, #Ministry, #philological school, #philosophical discussions, #Philosophical Movement, #publications, #review, #Roman Ingarden, #school work, #state post, #support request, #teacher position, #war, #Warsaw, #Władysław Witwicki, #Wojciech Górski

Lublin, Wieniawska 12.
19/5/1919

 

 

Honourable Professor!

            Two weeks ago, I took the liberty of turning to you with a polite request for your gracious support for my application at the Ministry of Public Education and Religious Denominations in connection with help in getting to Warsaw. Having received a definite proposal today from Mr Wojciech Górski[O1] , director and owner of an 8-class philological school in Warsaw, to take a permanent teaching post at his school ‒ and on significantly better terms than those I could get in a state school – I’ve decided to accept this proposal, especially given my doubts as to whether I would obtain a state post in Warsaw. As a result, I’m going to withdraw my application at the Ministry immediately. However, for fear that you may have taken some steps in my interests in vain – in light of my present decision – I’m hastening to inform you of my decision without delay, to thank you very cordially for supporting me, and to fervently apologise for the fact that, given the circumstances, I can no longer take advantage of your support.

            I’m terribly happy that I’m going to be in Warsaw – and that I’ll find a group of Lviv philosophers there – and especially Prof. Witwicki[O2] . My last discussion with him during the Easter holiday in Cracow aroused in me the conviction that we’ll find many points of contact in our work. I only deeply regret that I won’t find you in Warsaw. Then the Lviv traditions would develop more strongly in a new place.

            I haven’t sent a review of Jahrbuch [German: Yearbook] yet, since unfortunately Movement [i.e. Philosophical Movement] once again has had to suffer the violence of war; I suppose, then, that the matter is not so urgent. If it turns out otherwise, I can send this review within a short time.

            Once again I fervently apologise to you if my previous letter unfortunately exposed you, through my fault, to needless trouble, and I send expressions of profound respect

                                                                                                               Dr Roman Ingarden

 

 

[O1]Wojciech Górski (1849‒1935)
[O2]Władysław Witwicki (1878‒1948)