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Hotel Wittebrug, July 25, 1910
Dear friend,
Immediately after the receipt of your letter I got the information from the agency in The Hague and can report to you the following about the trip.
On August 29 the Yorck leaves from Antwerp (not Rotterdam) for East Asia and takes on passengers as far as Genoa or Naples. It stops in Southampton, Gibraltar, Algiers, and arrives at Genoa on the 8th and at
Naples on the 9th. The price is 396 marks first class, perhaps somewhat more or less (certain details). From Genoa we could also go with an Italian or other ship directly to Palermo, just as you wish. I would be totally involved, my health would not suffer, I am already very much recovered, my colitis much better; I would not pass anything up on account of a little constipation. There remains a certain risk in making reservations weeks ahead of time and risking 200 marks each, but that can hardly be avoided. The only thing that could disrupt our travel plans is what happens in Hamburg, where the old woman is wretchedly decrepit. I am certainly not directly affected by this to the extent that, for example, I would have to go to Hamburg, but if the end came right during those days—it could still drag on for months—it would naturally be painful for me to leave the women alone just then. So if you want to risk it, give me permission to reserve two cabins here. I have no way of judging if the demand for these trips is great or small. My brother, who is also here, thinks it is not great, since those who actually travel to Asia make the trip by rail.
I have sensed even more interest in your scientific innovations. Hoche has amused me very much and shaken me very little. Deuticke asks that I write a preface to the second edition of the Collection, First Series,1 which has now become necessary; maybe I will make a funny essay about opponents and resistance out of it, but very gently, because I am in a good mood.
At present I can't easily imagine heat. It is cold here, it rains several