Neurath, O. Two

Note

In the first letter Neurath thanks Mr. and Mrs. de Kanter for helping him and his (recentlly deceased) wife settling in the Netherlands after they fled from Austria du to the reactionary political forces. "(...) Meine Frau hat oft - und auch in ihren letzten Lebenstagen - mit mir darüber gesprochen, wie sehr sie die Freundschaft empfand, die Sie ihr entgegengebracht haben. Wir wussten beiden immer, wie sehr Sie beide unsere ganze Existenz hier ermöglichen halfen (...)". The second letter and its attached letter deal extensively on the cooperation between the International Foundation for Visual Education and the Dutch Statistical Foundation, on the regulation, responsibilities, uniformity, costs and payments: "(...) What you write about the Dutch Foundation as going on with their own Isotype work, I explained in my promemoria, enclosed [= the attached letter], that that would not by wise, since you should think of all our new techniques, etc and of our highly evolved transformational work. It would not by nice, to have the Isotype work by the Foundation for Visual Education and besides that some chart made by your Dutch Statistical Foundation (...)". P.J. de Kanter was the secretary of the Nederlandsche Stichting voor Statistiek and his wife de B.J.A. Kanter-van Hettinga Tromp was member of the board.

Drawing of an elephant and 5 cats/ kittens. "Neurath was so consumed with pictorial forms of communication that he often signed his correspondences with a drawing of an elephant." "The elephant represents Neurath (it was a common way for him to refer to himself)." (Vossoughian p.58 and 105).

SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.