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Göttingen, Herzberger Landstr. 101
13.ix.1921
Dear Professor,
Indeed I hardly know how to thank you for this! You have acted with such true kindness that I fear you can have no idea what it means to have such a sick old woman about the house. But at least you know what it would mean to me in happiness. We must choose a date which is most convenient for you. Only I am tied until the beginning or middle of January on account of two patients who have taken special leave for their treatment. And yet one must remember how much can happen in so long an interval to prevent this coming about—and the result will be that I shall certainly develop a neurosis myself from sheer anxiety.
And now like a wish-dreaming teenager I picture to myself every day a little of what it will be like when I shall really and truly be your guest.
Your grateful
Lou Andreas
P.S. In the next few days I shall be sending you a book which I have received from Rainer, about the schizophrenic Wölffli140 in the Berne asylum. I am getting the original of one of the illustrations included in the book.
Cp. Rilke's letter to Lou A.-S. of 10 September 1921 and her answer of 22 September. The schizophrenic Albert Wölffli was a man of parts; he wrote poems, composed music, drew and painted.