Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924

GA 263 — 31 January 1922, Dresden

Letter to Edith Maryon

Rudolf Steiner to Edith Maryon

Resden, 31 January 1922

My dear Edith Maryon!

I am writing to you from here instead of from Hamburg after all. But with all the traveling, it is not easy to find the time. So far, everything has gone well: the lectures and my health. All the auditoriums were very large. Now it is the morning after Dresden and tonight Breslau. I will now return via Stuttgart on 2 January [February]. Hopefully the railway strike won't cause any problems. I often find myself thinking about the studio and I am very eager to actually be there again. There will be many details to tell about this journey; the reception has been quite good from the audience so far. Of course, you can't do much through a lecture. You can only give a suggestion. You are actually always at the beginning of the work.

And now regarding the four questions: I have already answered the first one. It is quite possible to live outside the city if you have a car. Regarding the title of the lecture, I think the best seems to be: Spiritual Values in Education. But I am open to any other suggestion. Especially education as a world problem.

As for the translator, it should be the people there who decide. Hardly anyone can translate better than Kaufmann.

The place for the summer should be determined according to the needs there; I have no wishes about it.

It now seems that one also has to struggle with sectarian tendencies there. I find that very repulsive. Everything should be organized independently of the practices of the Theosophical Society.

I received the letter to Bremen. And thank you very much for that. The matter goes back to the fact that I did not want Flossy as a mediator for letters and once told her: one must write to me directly. Isn't that how it is to be understood; everything I say always refers to the one specific case. I want accuracy in matters, and the story with the article in the Hibbert Journal proves this. So I said this only for the case in question.

I also received the letter to Hannover, but now I can only add warmest regards, because my train is leaving soon. It is not possible from here to say exactly when I will arrive. I will come as soon as possible. As I said, hopefully a railroad strike will not throw a wrench into the works. Yesterday I was offered a car here just in case. Hopefully I won't need it, because something like that makes things difficult.

See you soon

Rudolf Steiner