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myself, I can assure you that if the post of
lecturer were offered me, I should be very glad
to accept it. I have never aspired to anything
higher, and I even confess to you, that to begin
with I should feel less shy in this position, and
quite satisfied to have an opportunity of
employing my knowledge in the service of the higher
education, and securing access for women to a
university career, a privilege which hitherto has
been bestowed only as an exception and a
special favour, and might be easily and
voluntarily withdrawn, as has been the case at most of
the German universities.
‘Without being rich, my means allow me to
live quite independently, so that the question of
salary would be irrelevant in this case. What
I wish above all, is to serve a cause dear to me,
and, at the same time, to work surrounded by
persons who are occupied with the same studies
as myself, an advantage I have always been
longing for, which I miss in Russia, and which
hitherto I have enjoyed only in Berlin.
‘These, my dear Professor, are my personal
feelings. But I must add another consideration.
So far as Professor Weierstrass can judge of
circumstances in Stockholm, he does not think
that the university will ever admit a woman
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