Note 15 — PART SEVEN [CONTINUED] (continued 3)
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As a contrast to this idea (Hebt den Grund der Armut auf!), which is not current among philanthropic financiers, I append the following letter:
My dear Baroness:
I have had the pleasure of receiving your esteemed favor of the nineteenth. Highly as I esteem the work to which you are devoting yourself with such self-sacrificing assiduity, I regret that I cannot be of assistance to it by acceding to the wish that you express. The great number of demands made upon me in behalf of humanitarian objects forbid my considering them all. You will, therefore, my dear Baroness, understand and will not feel offended with me, if I give the preference to such associations as not merely have in view an ideal purpose but pursue practical ends connected with real life.
Regretting that I am not in a position to give you an affirmative answer, I beg you to accept the expression of my distinguished consideration.
Bn. N. Rothschild