June 25, 2005

Dear Jane Ziff,

A few weeks ago, in an eleventh hour attempt to improve my mathematics skills, as I searched the Internet, to find out more about "Hilbert spaces", I discovered your nephew Jonathan's publication of your father's testimony before the Atomic Energy Commission.  As you may see from the enclosure, if you care to read it, my discovery evoked a stream of memories of the months in 1939 that I spent with you, with Peter, Ellen and your parents, first in Chappaqua and then on the farm upstate.

Recently I sent Ellen a copy of what I wrote.  She invited me to the memorial service for Peter.  If my courage holds up, my wife and I will come.  I am uncertain whether rummaging around in the memories of the distant past is appropriate or worthwhile, but I am certain that you should feel under no obligation to reply to my letter.  In the course of the many years that have passed, my affection for my memory of your parents' family has steadily grown, and I thought I should offer to let you read what I remember.

                           Sincerely,
                           Jochen Meyer