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Ammerwald, July 25, 1909
Dear Doctor,
It is with pleasure that I attempt to answer your questions, which relate to our planned adventure and can thus arouse only pleasant expectations.
I don't yet know anything about the return trip. Brill has advised against making a reservation now, because one can always get one easily at this time. [The tickets for the G. Washington are sitting in my briefcase; have paid for half of both of them, so that you have only to pay for the rest in Bremen.]1 figure, however, that we will go home around September 20, so that a few days will be left to me for Berlin and Hamburg, where, on the one hand, relatives are expecting a visit, and on the other, meetings with people like Marcinowski2 and Abraham are waiting in the wings. Like you, I want to be home on October 1. We can't know beforehand whether it will come out exactly that way. If you want to use the last days for a visit with us, you will have the joyful assent of all my family. They immediately instructed me to advise you that August 15 is a Sunday, so that you could very easily lengthen your vacation by a departure on the evening of the 14th. We would then leave here early on the 19th and get to Bremen on the 2Oth, as intended. It would naturally be very nice.
My trip to Budapest would have coincided with a consultation in Salonika, which had already been confirmed but was canceled at the last minute. It was not a case of neurosis but a paralyzed child.
Your financial provisions seem more than ample to me. I figure on getting by with the 3,000 marks from Clark University. But since I won't get it in advance, I will take the same amount along and count on us helping each other out.
I am making fewer preparations than you, although I would have more reason to make them. I have really completely used up my budget of strength for 1909, and I must rest. I will postpone all preparations until the ship. You and Jung should then tell me what I should talk about. I have a few books about Amer