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Martin Schneider
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Not that it matters but "highly esteemed" is the most normal possible way of opening a letter like this in German at that time. "Sehr geehrte" is a phrase that every German speaker knows, the way we know "sincerely yours" without exactly knowing why we know it.
It seems it was "Hoch geehrte."
MS
Martin Schneider
@wovenstrap.bsky.social
editor of copy:
the yale review / harvard up / yale up
princeton up / cornell up / random house
yale school of mgmt / cleveland orchestra
smog veil records / mit press / etc
320 followers374 following4.4k posts