[Budapest, undated]1

Dear Professor,

I am sorry that I have to talk about my work again, because, although I cannot consider the little opus totally worthless—especially after your laudatory acknowledgment—I would have liked to see the case regarding it closed and it left to its fate. But Dr. Brodmann, to whom I sent the work, has decided otherwise. He sent the manuscript back to me immediately and wrote me that he can't publish it. That this refusal brought me twenty-four hours of depression was surely only the consequence of impulses of