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gcrRee Observatory
W!LL!AMS BAY, W!S.
April 19, 1923.
UBH
Dr. Max Wolf,
Kdnigstahl, Heidelberg,
Germany.
Dear Professor Wolf:
Your letter of April 5th has reached me today.
Your many friends here, and everywhere, will
be deeply grieved to learn of the serious illness from
which yuu have suffered, and they will earnestly hope
that your health will be fully recovered. It must have
been a trying winter, indeed, for you, and we could
realize how difficult the situation must be for the
families of our friends in Germany, as well as several
other countries of Europe. The whole world needs re-
juvenation, and it often seems to some of us in the
United States who are living in relative comfort, that
our country ought to participate more in helping old
Europe back to its feet. Europe has done much for
America, and it would be only a fair return. But the
ways of politics are difficult to mend. It is my hope
that Hoover will be President of the United States some
day, then we could expect some broad views in the guid-
ance of America.
It was very kind of you to write the Nachruf
on our lamented Barnard, while you were so ill, and I
am very glad it will appear in the Nachrichten, for I
think it better that the appreciation of an eminent man
should not be written by his countrymen alone. It is
important to have a record of the point of view of his
contemporaries in other lands. I am glad you corrected
the errors in Professor See's notes. He sent me a copy
of it shortly after Professor Barnard's death, and I
wrote him, giving suggestions as to some of the errors
which he had unconsciously made. I have for a long time
known, or surmised, his relations with the A. N., and
can understand the delicacy of the matter.
In a letter received recently from Pulkowo,
Ivanoff stated that he understood that the photographic
materials which you spent so much effort in securing for
our Russian colleagues, have finally reached Petrograd,
gcrRee Observatory
W!LL!AMS BAY, W!S.
April 19, 1923.
UBH
Dr. Max Wolf,
Kdnigstahl, Heidelberg,
Germany.
Dear Professor Wolf:
Your letter of April 5th has reached me today.
Your many friends here, and everywhere, will
be deeply grieved to learn of the serious illness from
which yuu have suffered, and they will earnestly hope
that your health will be fully recovered. It must have
been a trying winter, indeed, for you, and we could
realize how difficult the situation must be for the
families of our friends in Germany, as well as several
other countries of Europe. The whole world needs re-
juvenation, and it often seems to some of us in the
United States who are living in relative comfort, that
our country ought to participate more in helping old
Europe back to its feet. Europe has done much for
America, and it would be only a fair return. But the
ways of politics are difficult to mend. It is my hope
that Hoover will be President of the United States some
day, then we could expect some broad views in the guid-
ance of America.
It was very kind of you to write the Nachruf
on our lamented Barnard, while you were so ill, and I
am very glad it will appear in the Nachrichten, for I
think it better that the appreciation of an eminent man
should not be written by his countrymen alone. It is
important to have a record of the point of view of his
contemporaries in other lands. I am glad you corrected
the errors in Professor See's notes. He sent me a copy
of it shortly after Professor Barnard's death, and I
wrote him, giving suggestions as to some of the errors
which he had unconsciously made. I have for a long time
known, or surmised, his relations with the A. N., and
can understand the delicacy of the matter.
In a letter received recently from Pulkowo,
Ivanoff stated that he understood that the photographic
materials which you spent so much effort in securing for
our Russian colleagues, have finally reached Petrograd,