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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
2.5.1912
Dear Dr Pfister,
Forgive my candid explanation for replying by return of post. To-day I have been having a headache, and am not yet in a fit state to attend to my other affairs.
In regard to your doubts about where to place the book to which we are all looking forward, personally I should vote for Messmer's series2 and against Deuticke, though in the last resort it is not very important which you choose. I know that Deuticke always makes difficulties, and complains about the sales of Hitschmann,3 for instance. But he will certainly take your book.4 On the other hand I am attracted by the prospect of gaining a new and not yet opened-up circle of readers in the field of education, while none of us would be put off buying the book by its inclusion in the series. Our