Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924

GA 263 — 29 September 1923, Hildesheim

Letter from Edith Maryon

Edith Maryon to Rudolf Steiner

Sculptor's studio, Goetheanum
Dornach near Basel
[presumably after September 27, 1923]

Saturday

Dear and honored teacher,

Everything here revolves around the blasting. Today there was a mighty explosion because the whole wall was blown up from east to north, along with the magazine floor. Everything went well, the floor gently sank down - like the lid of a cake - and did not splinter into many stones, as had been feared. Every effort is being made to prepare the other half for Monday evening, otherwise we will have to wait until Wednesday because the blaster is traveling on Tuesday. Then we will probably be finished with the main thing, otherwise there are only small things to be cleared away.

Kemper sprained his foot on the first day. Just after the signal was given, Daffi raced towards the construction site with Markus [Aisenpreis], and he [Kemper] had to jump and chase her away; in doing so, he sprained his foot and is still in bed. It's strange that among the many women in the de Jaager house, none of them made it their duty to keep the children out of danger. After this experience, however, they are now taking a somewhat stricter approach.

The very welcome letter has just arrived. I had some hope for Wachsmuth and am glad that he discovered the sleeper coupe; that certainly made the trip a lot easier. It was really a bad constellation this time. I am very happy that the first public lecture went well, and I think a lot about tonight and send the best thoughts.

The day before yesterday, the children hung up all of Paul's pictures and drawings at school and then had a nice party for him there yesterday. The three teachers spoke. Afterwards, the party was in Basel; I was told that it was nice.

Now Bauer is taking the letter to the post office and would like to send a greeting.

I send my best wishes for Sunday.

I hope you have a good, safe journey back, with another sleeper compartment, which I hope will be on Thursday.

Best regards

Edith Maryon