ABSTRACT
This letter was addressed to Max Horkheimer shortly before the entire Institute emigrated to New York, where Horkheimer was investigating work opportunities for the group. “P” is the abbreviation for Friedrich Pollock, “J” stands for the Journal of Social Research and “H. R.” for Heinrich Regius, the pseudonym under which Horkheimer published his collection of aphorisms, Dämmerung, in 1934. 1 The reference to the “work on the family” concerns the Studien über Autorität und Familie, Paris, 1936. “M” stands for Herbert Marcuse. Kundig was the name of a bookstore in Geneva.
