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172
. On the occasion of the marriage on January 15, 1924.

173
. His half brother, Karl Isenberg.

174
. Malaysian, “Mr.”

175
. Hesse's nephew; a musician and music historian.

176
. Like the other titles in the series,
The Romantic Mind
did not appear during Hesse's lifetime.

177
. Hesse's youngest son, then fourteen years old.

178
. A mental institution in Basel.

179
. Dr. Hermann Bodmer ran the Kurhaus Victoria in Locarno.

180
. Indian historian, a friend of Hesse's since 1922.

181
.
Siddhartha,
trans. Joseph Delage (Paris: Grasset, 1925).

182
. “Dedicated to my dear Romain Rolland.”

183
. “Ausflug in die Stadt,” in
Frankfurter Zeitung,
January 17, 1926, rept. in Hesse,
Die Kunst des Müssiggangs
(Frankfurt, 1973), p. 222.

184
. Painter, and wife of Dr. Hermann Bodmer.

185
. Johann von Tscharner, a painter born in Poland, who had lived in Zurich since 1916.

186
. “Gedanken über Lektüre,” in the
Berliner Tageblatt
of February 6, 1926. The article recommends an essay by Franz Oppenheimer, “Der Staat und die Sünde.”

187
. Pioneer in German sinology and author of authoritative German translations of the works of Confucius, Lao-tse, and Chuang-tze, among others.

188
. Hesse reviewed Schmitz's
Das dionysische Geheimnis: Erlebnisse und Erkenntnisse eines Fahnenflüchtigen
(1921).

189
. Wilhelm's translation of the
Tao Te Ching
(1921), his study
Lao Tse und der Taoismus
(1925), and also the translation
Dschuang Dsi: Das wahre Buch vom südlichen Blütenland
(1912).

190
. Hesse uses the English word “outsider.”

191
. Writer, co-founder of Dadaism, pacifist; Hesse's close friend since 1919.

192
. Ball was commissioned by S. Fischer to write a biography on the occasion of Hesse's fiftieth birthday.

193
. Adele, who provided Ball with information about the family.

194
.
Der Steppenwolf: Ein Stück Tagebuch in Versen.
The series of poems appeared in
Die Neue Rundschau
in November 1926, subsequently published under the title
Krisis.
(Berlin: S. Fischer, 1928;
Gedichte.
)

195
. Possibly her memoirs,
Im Spiegel des Alters
(1926).

196
.
Der Steppenwolf.

197
. Concerning Heiner's choice of a profession.

198
. A bouquet of flowers painted on the letterhead.

199
. Ball's biography of Hesse, published by the S. Fischer Verlag (1927).

200
. Hugo Ball,
Byzantine Christianity
(1923).

201
. Franz Schall, a school friend in Göppingen and Maulbronn.

202
. “Yesterday I received the exceptional book in which Hugo Ball provides an excellent account of Hesse's life, being, and work, and thank you very much for it.”

203
. Sculptor and graphic artist.

204
. A small bust of “beautiful Lilly,” which Hesse had admired in Hubacher's studio.

205
. Ninon Dolbin, née Ausländer, art historian; Hesse's wife from 1931 to his death.

206
. For stomach cancer.

207
. Max Wassmer and his wife, Mathilde. He was proprietor of Bremgarten Castle near Bern and a patron of Hesse's.

208
. Author of novels and short stories, also a music teacher, whom Hesse visited in 1919. Appears as Hans Resom in Hesse's
The Journey to the East.

209
. Three weeks previously, Hesse had visited Würzburg with Ninon.

210
. Since there was no heating in Hesse's rented apartment in the Casa Camuzzi in Montagnola, he usually spent the winter months in apartments in the city (Basel, Zurich).

211
. Hans Rudolf Schmid,
Hermann Hesse
(1928).

212
. The essay was never published.

213
. Harry Haller, the main protagonist in
Steppenwolf.

214
.
Betrachtungen
(Berlin: S. Fischer, 1928).

215
.
Bilderbuch
(Berlin: S. Fischer, 1926).

216
. His half brother, Karl Isenberg, and his family.

217
. Otto Rosenfeld, a friend of Hesse's in Stuttgart.

218
. Editor of
Der Bund,
Bern.

219
. From
Geschichten aus dem Mittelalter,
published in
Der Bund
on January 26, 1930.

220
. Physician, musician, and collector of Beethoven; Hesse's patron.

221
. Hans Prinzhorn, author and essayist.

222
. Baltic writer, cousin of Hesse's father.

223
. Eugen Salzer, a publisher in Heilbronn.

224
.
Die Angstmühle
(1930). Hesse's review appeared in the
National-Zeitung,
Basel, on November 30, 1930.

225
. Nationalistic writer, who became one of fourteen founding members of the new National Socialist Academy of Arts in 1933, when the Prussian Academy of Arts was dissolved.

226
. From the Prussian Academy of Arts, to which he had been elected four years previously.

227
. In a circular letter of November 4, 1930, Wilhelm Schäfer, who at that point was convenor of the Academy's meetings, had tried to persuade the less active members of the Section for Literature to resign.

228
. Walter von Molo, writer, was president of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1928 to 1930.

229
. In the course of his life, Hesse published over 3,000 reviews drawing attention to new books and reprints of noteworthy older titles.

230
. Nobel Prize-winning German novelist. Hesse's correspondence with Mann, extending from 1910 to 1955, has been published in English under the title
The Hesse/Mann Letters,
trans. Ralph Manheim (New York: Harper & Row, 1975).

231
. Mann had left Chantarella with his wife and daughter Elisabeth a week earlier.

232
. Heinrich Mann writes in his essay: “The Section fully understands the reasons for the resignation of those gentlemen.… Henceforward, it will have to defend intellectual freedom, regardless of the nature of the intellectual position being suppressed.”

233
. Latin, “in a nutshell.”

234
. Journalist and editor of the socialist workers' paper
Der Kulturwille.

235
. Josef Englert, who was Jup the Magician in
Klingsor's Last Summer.
He owned a house near St. Moritz, where Hesse spent some months convalescing in 1931 and 1932.

236
. The highest station on the funicular on the Piz Corvatsch (3,458 meters), a mountain near St. Moritz, Switzerland.

237
. Hesse's Zurich friends Alice and Fritz Leuthold allowed him to use an apartment at Schanzengraben 31 for winter quarters.

238
.
The Glass Bead Game.

239
. Boyhood friend of Hesse's; later mayor of Göppingen.

240
. Kafka's friend and executor, Max Brod, wrote to Hesse on December 1, 1926: “I don't know whether I have ever told you that Franz Kafka loved your works and, although he usually didn't pay much attention to criticism, the receipt of a review of yours was one of the final pleasures he had as he lay on his deathbed in Kierling.”

241
. Hesse and Hubacher were both friends of the Swiss painter Ernst Morgenthaler and his wife, Sasha.

242
. André Gide's letter of March 11, 1933, read:
   
“Depuis longtemps je désire vous écrire. Cette pensée me tourmente—que l'un de nous deux puisse quitter la terre sans que vous ayez eu ma sympathie profonde pour chacun des livres de vous que j'ai lus. Entre tous,
Demian
et
Knulp
m'ont ravi. Puis ce délicieux et mystérieux
Morgenlandfahrt
el enfin votre
Goldmund,
que je n'ai pas encore achevé—et que je déguste lentement, craignant de l'achever trop vite.
   
“Les admirateurs que vous avez en France (et je vous en récrute sans cesse de nouveaux) ne sont peut-être pas encore trés nombreux, mais d'autant plus fervents. Aucun d'eux ne saurait être plus attentif ni plus ému que André Gide.”

243
. From 1905 to 1933, Hesse wrote fifteen reviews of works by Gide, in which he tried to spark interest in his works (
WA,
12:417–19).

244
. Director of the pharmaceutical division of a Basel chemical firm. Hesse met him in 1924 during his first cure at Baden. Stoll supplied Hesse with medicaments in return for books, paintings, and special printings.

245
. “Statement of Allegiance to Socialism” (letter to Adolf Grimme, Minister for Education), in
Sozialistische Bildung,
Berlin, February 1933.

246
. Hesse was offering his friends manuscripts of poems illustrated with colored drawings. The following note was attached:
   “In the summer of 1933, I wrote a small cycle of poems (eleven in number). Since they cannot be published at present, and since the situation in Germany is such that my income has sunk to the level of the inflation years, I would ask any friends of mine who can afford it to purchase a copy of these poems, either for themselves or as a gift for somebody else. I have copied the text on very fine paper, and illustrated it with colored drawings. No two copies are identical, each is different in some way. Handwritten copies cost from 200 to 250 francs, depending on the particular request; typed copies are 150 francs.”

247
. Adele Gundert.

248
. “Besinnung” (“Contemplation”) (
Gedichte,
p. 623).

249
. The concordat between Germany and the Vatican was signed by Vice-Chancellor von Papen and Cardinal Pacelli, the State Secretary, on July 20, 1933.

250
. Jakob Wilhelm Hauer, a scholar in religious studies and an expert on India, who served for some time as head of the German Movement for the Faith.

251
. Painter and graphic artist, illustrated several of Hesse's books and designed the dust jackets for all his works in the Suhrkamp editions.

252
. “Bird,” a nickname for Hesse.

253
. The Lion and the Tiger: Hesse's young cats.

254
. The widow of the publicist Heinrich Wiegand.

255
. In 1933, Hesse gave the typewritten manuscript of his fairy tale “Vogel,” with illustrations by Gunter Böhmer, as a Christmas gift to his patron H. C. Bodmer (
WA,
6:460ff).

256
. Painted eggs from Romania.

257
.
Vom Baum des Lebens: Ausgewählte Gedichte
(Leipzig, 1934).

258
. “The Fourth Life of Josef Knecht”; originally intended as part of
The Glass Bead Game.

259
. Erich Mühsam, poet, dramatist, essayist. In 1919, as a member of the “revolutionary workers' council,” he took part in the proclamation of the Bavarian Republic of Soviets. He was tortured to death in the Oranienburg concentration camp.

260
. Hesse's publisher Samuel Fischer died on October 15, 1934.

261
. In a column in the cultural section of the
National-Zeitung
of January 13, 1935, the author accuses the S. Fischer Verlag of opportunism vis-à-vis the Nazi leadership because of a deleted footnote in
Die Schaukel,
a novel by Annette Kolb.

262
. The footnote reads: “Ever since the day when the Jews gained some influence in intellectual life, artists began to sense the presence of certain opportunities, and they no longer had to contend with their former hardship, which often amounted in subjective terms to an absolute standstill.[ … ] These days we are a small band of Christians in Germany who remain conscious of our indebtedness to Judaism.”

263
.
Bonniers Litterära Magasin.

264
. The introduction to
The Glass Bead Game
(published in
Die Neue Rundschau,
December 1934).

265
. The
Schweizer Journal
had declared itself insolvent.

266
. On his way back from Rome, the physician and writer Hans Carossa visited Hesse in Montagnola.

267
. Painter; designed the cover and title page for
Die Morgenlandfahrt
(
The Journey to the East
).

268
.
Indische Sphären
(1935).

269
. “On Reading the Summa Contra Gentiles.”

270
. The lawyer Dr. Wolfram Kimmig had the power of attorney over Hesse's bank account in Constance, Germany.

271
.
Stunden im Garten
(Vienna: Bermann-Fischer, 1936).

272
. Hesse's brother Hans, who lived in Baden (near Zurich).

273
. Hans Hesse's wife.

274
. Hans Hesse had worked twenty-four years for the Brown Boveri Corporation.

275
. Transcribed from a copy of the letter, without any initial greeting.

276
. The choir of the choral society, to which Hans Hesse had belonged.

277
. Possibly an illustration for Adalbert Stifter's stories
Der Hagestolz
(1852) or
Abdias
(1853).