To Ilona (Between January and July 1947)

[477] My sweatest darling,

There are ______ Notes which may help you to make up your mind concerning one or another of the practiced items that are ______ to arise on ______ ____ to the _____. They are by no means suggestions - {Hungarian}.

On the whole filling a house is regarded ____ as {no} affair. Flats are filled with cupboards, kitchen with all the appliances, formative (second hand) is easily available and even very cheap if one cares to get it cheap (the 'auctions' are ___ around the corner). Eva & Mausi are unanimous on this. $500 are sufficient to furnish a flat (3 + kitchen). An apartment in a Columbia owned house is 'elegant'; its advantage is the great {case} in cleaning - it's all done in a ____ fifty. However, we may not get such a ___ apartment - but one ___ in a non-Columbia house; (of course, it is not certain that we get one ____ but I'll _____ to be hopeful on this score…). ___ we hire somewhere in the close neighborhood life is simple & {lazy} from the professional point of view - office, library, {lab} _____ colleges - everything on the {premises}. There is but very little compulsory ____ life; it is always possible to invite somebody to men's faculty Club or Butler wall and keep on its privacy intact.

[478] [479] [480] [481] […] I need badly a Ploetz or any other historical (chronological) reference book. Maybe I'll turn for German books to ____ (I need most Thurnwald and Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Max Weber. The latter work is vol. 3 of the “Grundriß d. Sozialöknomik” a series which is rare and expensive collection. A Cambridge Medieval History may be perhaps available or a Cambridge Ancient History - I ____ed need then, equally badly, and would be prepared to pay the current price, in pounds. These platonic desiderata with obviously remain ______ed.

Michael ____ ___ we _____ that he'd the MP and that he would do what he can to help. I'll write to the {arman} & Adams, too; “I'm far from assuming that they behaved irresponsibly; in effect I want to make sure that they continue to the interested in M's affairs. (I know best how impossibly he can behave). You did very well, darling, and I feel confident that she'll learn in the end to behave reasonably reasonably .

I enclose a letter from Ada which I unfortunately left unanswered for 2 months. But then I wrote today this to apologize and to say I had sent it on to you. I think Kari

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[482] My nephew George is THE party in Chicago, my nephew Latty is the anti-party in Buffalo; my nephew Romas is his fellow traveller; my niece Marika is a thoughtful and machiavel 'left'; my niece Eva sincerely admires her. Mausi is a fellow traveller of her children; Sandor believes that Marocco is on the {Terezkomt}. However he reads “Jävo”.

Letter Informations

Reference:
KPA: 59/08, 477-482