Berlin March 19, 1926 or ‘28
Dear Ernst, I cannot follow the path of your reasoning, that
for certain reasons, which I won’t repeat here, you have it uniquely hard,
before you lay out your evidence. In the latter case, I am prepared to stand by
you with advice and action. If you have the courage to speak to Mr. R., that
you deserve higher pay, then you have to have the courage to lay out before him
the evidence that you work diligently and accurately.
However, I already have evidence that you don’t take your
assignments seriously; because you bummed around here two Mondays (work days).
I am therefore skeptical regarding the remaining work days.
In addition: granting that you do have special difficulties
to contend with. Then you’d have to – it’s the only right way – work
particularly diligently and accurately, so that you overcome the –alleged –
difficulties & lay them behind you.
Think what giving up now would mean for you. Yet again
you’re thinking past things and not about yourself and your future.
Father
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