Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
9.2.1912

Dear Dr Pfister,

I understand your displeasure at perpetually writing expository articles and self-eulogies, and certainly cannot recommend you to continue with the malpractice. But your colleagues would certainly take a refusal very much amiss, so I suppose you will have to give them something. I can understand that you do not want to go alone; perhaps someone will turn up who will accompany you and gladly do battle at your side. I was delighted at all the news about your work.

I know little about K., as my news from your city has recently been meagre. I have no memory of him as a pupil (!); he may have heard one or more of my lectures. I cannot remember all those who put down their names for them in all