Stuk 67 - Postcard from H. Diels to Professor J. G. Frazer

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Berlin - Dahlem, Am Erlenbusch 6, zur Zeit Bad Landeck (Schlesien), Unteres Generalhaus - After receiving his thanks for his contribution to the foundation of the Frazer lectureships, he surprises him with the dedication of the Loeb Apollodorus; thanks him for renewing the correspondence; the dreadful war has destroyed his fatherland, and his wife [Martha] was so weakened by hunger that she died in 1919 within a few days of catching a cold [influenza?]; 'Unfortunately I am still here'; has asked the publisher to send him his edition of Philodemus.

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