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Handwritten letter, 2 pages, envelope included- postmarked 1 day later, photo attached
Typewritten letter, 1 page
Letter about Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
Handwritten letter, 2 pages
Guido Filogamo writes to Hamburger to ask him for references
On the correction of the manuscript.
Original in poor condition
On Holtfreter's Bali pictures. On his plans visiting the US.
On Hamburger's review of Holtfreter's manuscript. On theories about induction: "I find that all this kind of speculating, including my own stuff on proteins, is rather cheap. I did it only because I thought it to be a little bit more fitting than what I had read about induction, especially in Waddington's revelations. Anybody today who takes the risk of interpreting induction in general terms is bound to be caught as a blunderer. I find that all these theories of Waddington, Dalcq, Barth etc. are not much else than a hitting upon an analogy and the attempt to elaborate upon it. Some of them sound a bit more pleasant, others less so, but all are 99% poetry. Harrison and Spemann were wise enough never to go far along the slippery road of speculations but they were nevertheless kept going by the phantasmagorias of Driesch [,] Weismann, Roux and the like. Anyway, persons who emit their theories abut induction should follow them up experimentally as far a[s] possible, otherwise they are just annoying."
On a visit from F. O. Schmitt and their conversation on protoplasmic structures. Requesting the adress of his sister in Detmold: "I have not yet contacted anyone of my family, and it is heartbreaking to see how they are starving while we are filling our belly (...)".
Handwritten letter
Handwritten letter