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Grinzing
August 16, 1937
Dear Martin
I am enjoying your description of Capri and your lovely life there. Yesterday, Sunday, I was reviving memories of our stay in Capri with your uncle.1 It was very hot then, and we were the only guests in September. The boatman who rowed us into the Blue Grotto told us horror stories of a certain Timperio, I think, who once haunted the island. Vesuvius also was active, producing a smoke cloud by day and a fire cloud by night, just like the God of Exodus in the Bible. For Jehovah (Jahve) was a volcanic god, as you will learn from the second essay on Moses, which is now finished, awaiting your return.
Quite a good summer here, occasionally interrupted by lapses into April or premonitions of November. Also by ill-health….
You will be confronted with a minor business matter concerning the Verlag when you return. Nothing important.
On September 1 my friend Emanuel Löwy,2 even he, will be eighty. He presented me with a beautiful etching by Dürer on the identical occasion. Even if he hadn't I would not like the day to pass unnoticed. But it is difficult to find him a present. I have