Item 33 - Postcard from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Gilbert Pattisson

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Add. MS a/746/33

Title

Postcard from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Gilbert Pattisson

Date(s)

  • 8 Jul. [?] 1937 [postmark] (Creation)

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1 postcard.

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Scope and content

Sent from 3 Colleton Crescent, Exeter [home of Con Drury, who also signs the card]. - Postcard shows wood-carving of a female centaur holding a bow [a misericord from Exeter Cathedral]. Wittgenstein describes this as 'An ancient representation of myselfread more

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