Archival note

Archival note by Alfred Schmidt © 2023 Alfred Schmidt and University of Bergen. CC BY NC 4.0

ÖNB: Autogr. 1292/64-2. A poem of Ludwig Wittgenstein written down by Hermine Wittgenstein on a loose sheet, with "Ludwig Wittgenst" and date "0tterthal 22.1.25" under it. Size 27,1 x 21,3 cm; black ink, perforated on the left edge. The poem was probably written for Marie Fillunger's 75th birthday on 27 January 1925. Marie Fillunger, a well-known Viennese opera singer and close friend of Eugenie Schumann, was a frequent guest in the Wittgenstein family. The poem refers - as does TS 246 - to the socks she knitted. Published in: Wittgenstein’s Family Letters, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, p. 138-9 (Wittgenstein Familienbriefe, Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1996, p. 104).