Hess and his wife Ilse with Adolf Hitler in better days. After her husband’s flight, she received a pension of 1.100 Reichsmarks a month.[/caption]"Some months ago in one of your letters you wrote that, beyond and above all the outer events of the last few years through the fiery trial of this Purgatorium, the spiritual element has remained and will remain as the sole great uniting power! I am reminded by this that our own union in its first beginnings may be said to have taken place under the star of Holderlin. Twenty-five years ago I wrote an inscription for you in Hyperion: ‘How often the gardener scratches his hands with the roses that he is about to plant…that is the peril for those who are beloved by the heavenly powers; their love is full of power and yet tender as their spirit, while their hearts bear stronger waves even than the trident of the Sea God who is ruler of the waves…therefore my darling - Oh my darling! - let us beware of pride and vanity.’
Underneath I added the date: 26th April, 1922."
Letter from Ilse Hess to Rudolf 31st May 1947.
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