Postcard from Edmund Husserl written 07.04.1932

Author Edmund Husserl

Category foreign researchers, incoming correspondence

Archive The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences

Date of creation 7.04.1932

Reference code in archive Biblioteka PAU

Resource type postcard

Subject matter personal issues, publication issues

Field philosophy

Tags #academic work, #blizzard, #depression, #Edmund Husserl, #friendship relations, #personal interaction, #Yearbook

7.4.1932 [Postmark]

My dear old Friend,

I too have been in a state of depression, unfortunately, for about six weeks now. Hence, my silence. I have been up here for only four days (at 1200 m) – in the midst of a blizzard. I cannot even go outside! Thank you very much for your faithful affection. We could be so much more on a philosophical level than what is currently possible for lack of personal interaction. Will my physical energy be enough to for me to finish my work, perhaps even this year? Well, I shall not quit, although it has become more extensive (factually) than I could have ever hoped. And still no Yearbook! Your beautiful work, which I cannot accompany…?!

Cordially yours,

E. Husserl

We shall not let the depression get us down.