Jaspers, Karl (1883-1969). Eigh. Letter from Karl Jaspers. 11/2 S. Gr. 4to. Heidelberg 16.XII.1907. As a Heidelberg student to his "liebe Aunt Kohlmann", about the mourning case with Anne Klehmet. His words already give a glimpse of the future psychiatrist and philosopher. "...I have a keen desire to tell you how much I feel about you. For even though we may not be very close, such elementary events bind people together. - Anne has very heavy things to carry. According to the usual view, which sees the purpose of life in as much luck as possible, as much happiness as possible known to man, one can only regret it. But if one dares to doubt the correctness of this view and confess that we do not know anything about the purpose of life and the meaning of individual events, the most serious as well as the happiest, then one may still deeply regret Anne's fate according to the human horizon, but one may also trust that for the eternal, unknown things, on which now basically everything lies, each fate has its meaning and a good meaning ...". - Holed and slightly tanned at the edges.