to do ths I will certainly not raise any objection.[^19]

Klein surely found Noether’s letter a quite bizarre and certainly hypersensitive overreaction to this whole matter. Probably he remembered nothing about the details of the discussion between Kronecker and Clebsch. On the other hand, Noether’s lengthy remarks to Klein about Kronecker’s methods and claims – remarks based on the not yet published text of [@B-N] – reveal how carefully he approached this terrain. Did Klein even bother to read these parts of Noether’s letter? He was a busy man; futhermore, he fully accepted Noether’s authority as [*the*]{} leading expert on all such matters.

Klein’s Note and Noether’s Commentary
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Noether’s relationship with Klein had always been harmonious, and it would remain that way in the future, despite occasional differences with respect to [*Mathematische Annalen*]{}, the journal co-founded by their mutual mentor, Alfred Clebsch. Once he saw that Klein merely wanted to clarify his own early and certainly quite marginal involvement with what Noether regarded as a theorem of no great importance for the resolution of singularities for curves, the latter was more than happy to accomodate him. Klein’s appended [*Zusatz*]{} to [@Bertini1894] reads:

> The method of Bertini, speaking geometrically, 