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[Vienna, 27 Feb. 1913]
Dear Professor,
I owed you an answer last evening,14 when you passed me the note asking me how I had found Sunday's lecture.15 But what could be said in a few words you knew already; the lecture gave me much food for thought, I started a long letter to you, not only about it, but about other things we had discussed on Sunday—and then finally I saw how absurd it was. For what I get from you is far more than anything I can reciprocate, even if I were to see you very often or if I were to bombard you with letters. But all this does not matter; to receive these things from you has been the great joy of this winter, and to assimilate them within myself will be the joy of this coming summer. To be allowed to go beyond book-knowledge into living knowledge: it is the personal contact for which I shall always be