Dear Sir:

I believe that the similarity of our ways of thinking will excuse this letter, its frankness, and the omission of customary circumlocutions. I need no such artificial mannerisms, since Professor and Pastor Reccard's trip to Königsberg gives me such a fine opportunity to express to you the pleasure I feel at our agreement on so many new thoughts and investigations. You may already have learned from the Reverend Dr. Reccard, dear sir, that he lives for the sake of astronomy, and finds his pleasure in the depths of the firmament. I need not recommend him further.

A year ago Professor Sulzer showed me your Only Possible Proof for the Existence of God. I found in it my own thoughts and even the phrases I would choose to express them, and I decided at once that if you were to see my Organon you too would find yourself mirrored in most of its pages. Since then, I had worked out my Architektonic and the book was already prepared for publication a year ago. And now I learn, dear sir, that you are going to publish a Proper Method for Metaphysics this coming Easter. What could be more natural than my desire to see whether what I have done is in accord with the method you propose? I have no doubts as to the correctness of the method.