To Ilona (26 July 1941)

… Last night Braissford came over from his nearly home, and we discussed the early history of the English Utopians, from Moore to Owen. … Economics have developed into a great science in recent years and unless one keeps up with it one can easily get out of touch with the underlying thinking of the masses themselves which imperceptibly is affected by the new approaches.

[2] … grandfather… Lasswell … David Truman … I will write to David, to make sure that grandfather get's the right type of work with Lasswell. However, Lasswell knows everything about Continental scholarship and is probably better acquainted with Kolmia's work than I myself. It was very high time that something turned up, for things we beginning to look gloomy for grandfather. Bözsi was holding up her end in a splendid way… Ted Newcombe… Gregory Vlastos (…) also is at Columbia summer school; …Paul Lazarsfeld … all this is very much Vorgartenstraße. …

[3] Misi is a queer fish. […] Mausi somehow … Hans and Misi, and Evi is siding by necessity and conviction with her husband.

My own studies fall into three periods… [4] (I forgot to mention my continuous occupation with the subject matter of my seminar − closely related to the book stuff − which kept my busy on the theory of the Balance of Power, Imperialism, and the influence of [Christiani]ty on the development of Western Civilization mainly relying on Max Weber, Troeltsch, Sombart, Tawney, Pirenne and Cunnigham, but eventually having to include the Institutio Christiana of Calvin and other rather out of the way matters).

[5] As to Chicago, where according to both Sandor and Gussich your father died, I have not yet taken up the matter again. Otto is helping me in that direction. In spite of Raoul Blumberg matters are progressing in Washington very slowly.

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