30-12-2016, 01:01 PM
I would add that Panofsky didn't "write a letter" but responded with quite uncharacteristic brevity, taciturnity and lack of original opinion to a questionnaire sent him by Col. Friedman.
As testimony to the political atmosphere of the post-war period in America, it is certainly a valuable document, but as indication of Panofsky's views about this manuscript, it carries almost no information.
Far more informative is Anne Nill's record of Panofsky's assessment made when he saw the document about two decades earlier, in 1931.
As testimony to the political atmosphere of the post-war period in America, it is certainly a valuable document, but as indication of Panofsky's views about this manuscript, it carries almost no information.
Far more informative is Anne Nill's record of Panofsky's assessment made when he saw the document about two decades earlier, in 1931.