# Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924

## GA 263 — 1 September 1919

### Letter from Edith Maryon

Edith Maryon to Rudolf Steiner

Sculptor's studio, Goetheanum, Monday evening  
[September 1, 1919]

Dear and honored teacher,

I am writing to you straight away because, when I was making a copy of the titles of your lectures for Oxford, I had the feeling that with “Man within the Social Order. The Individual and the Community” (= commonwealth), you actually mean “community”. Commonwealth has more to do with the state, but community with people as such in their relationships to one another and as a whole. If you could tell me which word you would have preferred to use in the translation, I will send a postcard to Mrs. Mackenzie. I have already made a comment in the letter.

Tuesday. Hopefully, your health is improving now? I hope that the opening ceremony at school will be quite nice, I will be thinking of it.

Tomorrow afternoon we are photographing some children doing eurythmy therapy, in the hope of getting some good pictures for Anthroposophy.

There is nothing special to report today. With warmest greetings

Edith Maryon