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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
20.1.1911
Dear Dr Pfister,
I am several letters deep in your debt, and have been drawing extensively on the indulgence you show for my complicated circumstances. Perhaps your repeated question about my technical rules and maxims may have played a part in my dilatoriness, because I obviously do not like being reminded of them. Part of the work has been finished for eighteen months, but the whole is not yet ripe, and the author is very tired. So I cannot promise anything for a long time to come. Till then techniques will have to grow wild.
During the past fortnight we have been preoccupied by my son's accident; he broke his thigh while skiing on the Schneeberg, was brought down with difficulty, and is now in a sanatorium. But things are taking their regular course and apparently will leave few serious consequences behind.
I was delighted by the success of our interview in Munich. The refreshment gained there has faded away again. It can not be helped. In the autumn I hope at last to see my Zürich friends at leisure again. In the meantime I shall certainly see a lot of your literary projects in finished form.
I send you my cordial greetings, bid you farewell for the