MELL, MAX. Group of 5 Autograph Letters Signed, to aphorist Hans Margolius or an unnamed recipient, in German, granting permission for him to use anything in the collection published by Dworczak Abraham, thanking for his praise of Das Apostelspiel (1924), praising Margolius's aphorisms, sending excerpts of works by Adolf Pichler [not present], praising and thanking for sending his book Schopenhauer Jahrbuch (1960), recommending a minor change to the text of a booklet, explaining that his delay in replying is due to work on a speech, remarking that he has brought his aphorism books to Styria for inspiration, promising to send some epigrams, stating that he has no knowledge of Edwin Hartl [Austrian essayist (1906-1998)], and recommending Margolius's Maximen zur Ethik to an unnamed recipient. Together 7 pages, 4to or smaller, two on postcards; some chipping to edges, few small holes at fold intersections, punch holes in left margin of one. Vp, 1953-61
29 May no year: ". . . These 'epigrams' are the equivalent of your aphorisms. They come from a highly educated man, the ministerial advisor Waldstein, who is doing a great deal of good for artistic endeavors in the ministry of education in Vienna, and who has brought together his essays on music and poesy in a recently published volume entitled 'Art and Ethics.' . . ."
