[Göttingen, 3 May 1925]

Dear Professor,

It is really too distressing that I cannot already look forward to a day in the not too distant future when I can see you face to face. Were that the case this letter would not need to be written, but what am I to do! Unscaleable, the Semmering rises up before my mind's eye and I stand at the foot among my analysands, and can but hope that the year which now begins anew with your birthday will make it possible at last for me to visit father and daughter again. Much in life is almost too difficult—but who knows that better than you! Now you still have a month or two before the holidays and the summer. May that be a less painful period than the last few months which, so Anna told me, have been particularly uncomfortable