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had to give the lecture. I went to the very good library of the University of
Illinois, to check out whether we had a Wiegleb in Illinois.
There was no Wiegleb. So I went to the interlibrary service department
and said, “Well, I would like to have a topic, and I can give you the exact
details.” Of course, references to Wiegleb can be found in almost all topics
on the history of science and magic.
I gave them the reference. I waited and waited. I went back to the library
and said, “What happened? I ordered this topic a long time ago?” They said,
“We searched through all the United States, libraries that are in the inter-
library service connection, and not even in the Library of Congress, nor in
the this and that and that, could we find any original Wiegleb.”
I said, that is very, very sad, so I had to make do with some others. Of
course, there are plenty of topics on magic; well, I had to be satisified with
some others. But I wanted to just drop that as a footnote to my story on
the Wiegleb.
I will close with this. What I should do now is to pack the tape, and mail it
to you so that you have fun with the Wiegleb. Also, I have some photographs,
of Grete Wiesenthal, of my mother, and perhaps I'll make some copies of
these photographs, which I can only copy on my little Canon copying
machine, but they are reasonably good. You can get an idea of them.
Please send my greatings to all the wonderful members of your family,
and I tell you, it was a great pleasure to sit in your kitchen, and tell you a
little bit about the stories of Austria, myself, my family, and Martin.
Heinz
Pescadero
October
17-18, 1987
