---
ga: 263
title: "Letter to Edith Maryon"
date: 1919-07-25
location: Stuttgart
words: 381
---
# Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924

## GA 263 — 25 July 1919, Stuttgart

### Letter to Edith Maryon

Rudolf Steiner to Edith Maryon

Stuttgart, 25 July 1919

My dear Miss Edith Maryon!

It is good that I have received the two letters and the picture of our artistic work. It is sad to hear that such difficulties are arising for the living quarters. Perhaps something can be arranged to alleviate these difficulties. My work here has not diminished. For example, in the last few days I gave a lecture here on Sunday, in Heilbronn on Monday, in Ulm on Tuesday, here on Wednesday, on Thursday I spoke to the eurythmy group here, today I had many meetings and so on. In between, there is much to discuss and write about.

How I long to be back to our artistic work! For the time being, we intend to go to Dornach in the first half of August. But everything is uncertain at the moment. But I certainly hope that it will come about. Then, however, I would have to be back in Stuttgart in the second half of August, where I have to give a course for the teachers of a school that I would like to found. But if everything goes as I am now thinking, I would be back at work in the sculpture studio for a short time. Boos has done good work in Switzerland in the meantime.

The direction of the ideas is not really understood. There are certainly a few who show understanding. But there is a lot of misunderstanding, and one advances much too slowly for the time conditions. You too have difficulties with the translation of my book. But it will be of great importance that this translation is published.

Recently I have also given anthroposophical lectures in addition to the other lectures. One could even say that there is more interest in the latter than in the former.

In the time that remains to me from my work, I think a lot about the sculpting work in our studio. It will be satisfying for me to be there again. We want to see if this will be in the first

half of August. For now, warmest greetings from

Rudolf Steiner

Stuttgart, Landhausstraße 70