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Vienna, May 17, 1910
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
You will witness the fact that I have seldom neglected to talk to you, if possible, and you should now learn that since the 5th of the month (your delightful letter arrived just after my 54th! birthday) I have been laboring under an influenza which first caused me to lose my voice, and now my strength. I was in Karlsbad over Whitsun, where I met my blossoming wife and daughter and where I brought back with me not convalescence but rather a nice nephrite.1 The week before the holidays was the busiest of the entire year, and I braced myself for the necessity of not sacrificing any earnings to the illness. Now I have, I hope, apologized to you, and your thinking will not seek any other motives. Today I can write again, if not eat properly.
I think you should announce the course again after a while and wait at your post as a general, until the army returns. For Duna Pentele, my thanks for all your efforts. Your contribution has been in Steiner's hands since Wednesday.
We are working very assiduously in Vienna. The contract for the Zentralblatt has been signed with Bergmann, and the first issue is set for October. I will sign on as the editor, in accordance with Bergmann's wishes, and will open with the lecture in Nuremberg.
Jones is writing magnificent reports about battles and victories in America.
Our summer has been set to the extent that we will arrive in Noortwiyk