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not this summer, for the present Rector is
an ardent reactionary on the woman question. I
hope I shall succeed in obtaining admission in
December, when I shall be back here for my
holidays. . . .’
We see that while the Stockholm University
had already accepted Madame Kovalevsky as
professor, the mere fact of her sex still excluded
her from even hearing university lectures in the
German capital.
Anybody else no doubt would have felt some
uneasiness at the uncertainty of the position she
now accepted; but Sonia never was anxious
about the future. If the present satisfied her
she did not claim any more, and at any time
she would have been ready to sacrifice a glorious
future, if for that price she could have bought
happiness for the time being.
Before going to Berlin that summer Sonia had
visited her daughter, who was staying with a
friend in Moscow. From there she wrote to
Mittag Leffler in a way which explains her views
regarding her maternal duties, and the conflict
between her obligations as a mother and as a
public person.
‘Moskow, June 3rd, 1884.
‘ . . . I have received a long letter from T., in
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