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Correspondence from Hanni Jaeger to Fernando Pessoa
Berlin
October 14th. 1930.
Dear Señor Pessoa,
93
I am distracted since Mr. Germer [Karl Germer] has shown me your letter to him, and the copy of the newspaper. It is unpardonable that there should not have been any photograph of me, but I am having some taken to send on to Paris. I am writing the official story, and I will ask your friend in Paris to give it in proper form to the public. This is very important to me because of my family. The thought that any human being should ever have doubted the fact of my virginity is merely driving me mad. I wish I had been born a boy. I can hardly regret the death of the villain who pestered me with his unwelcome attentions.
Great interest has been aroused here by your phrase "an unimaginable amount of opposition" it does suggest more forcibly than ever before the existence of a magical conspiracy, against the G.W.B. [Great White Brotherhood]. Your "prolix fauna" of the cafés can hardly have been tipped off by the Jesuits in so many words.
I gather from the newspaper that a letter addressed to me marked "please forward" has been found. Can you arrange to have it forwarded to me? I have been really touched by the suicide of this despicable blackguard, since it was for my sake; I want this letter, to wear it on my heart until I die.
Yours for service and uplift,
93 93/93 Anu
Hanni Larissa Jaeger, American Express Co., Charlotten Str. 55, Berlin, Germany.
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