"Dear Professor Ginsberg,

you have probably heard the outcome of the move to establish a Chair in Sociology at this University. But I feel I must thank you, as I have done so often before, for the help you have been giving me by acting as my referee. We are well satisfied with this result ... And I myself am well satisfied with my Readership."

source:

Hermann Korte: Norbert Elias an der Universität Leicester, in: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (Hg.): Norbert Elias und die Menschenwissenschaften. Studien zur Entstehung und Wirkungsgeschichte seines Werkes, Frankfurt am Main 1996: Suhrkamp, S. 83