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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
27.1.1920
Dear Dr Pfister,
You sent us a charming lad, who, moreover, introduced himself with the traditional gifts. On the telephone his voice sounded so much like yours that for a while I could not believe it belonged to the second generation; and at lunch on Sunday he did not seem in the least unfamiliar; and he behaved so naturally that it was a delight to have him.
In spite of that, since Sunday we have not seen him again. On the same afternoon we received the news that our dear Sophie in Hamburg had been snatched away by influenzal pneumonia, snatched away from glowing health, from her busy life as a capable mother and loving wife, in four or five days, as if she had never been. We had been worried about