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Vienna, May 12, 1914
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I didn't write you in the last few days because I didn't know what to write. You remember my discomfort in Brioni. Shortly afterwards my laryngitis broke out, which went as far as my nose, but is almost all better today. At six in the evening, perhaps brought on by an excess of festivities, an acute intestinal condition set in, which Dr. Zweig1 examined with a proctoscope, and then he congratulated me. He then admitted that I didn't yet have the neoplasm that he suspected, but rather a very acute inflammation of the romanum.2 So I have been restored to life and can write to you again. I am now, by the way, subjectively better than I was before these illnesses.
The matter of the presidency has been smoothly decided in the meantime, as you know. Abraham will soon get things rolling and will deliver a Korrespondenzblatt to us. I will also correspond with him about the date of the Congress, which would be very inconvenient for me at the beginning of September. He himself is in favor of postponing it until September 20/21; we will get together for a private congress the day before. I will then be able to give the lecture in Leyden3 on about the 23d and then go to Hamburg. Our summer plans have been completely halted by my illness and uncertainty as to whether Zweig will recommend treatment.
My best wishes for your move! The planned tournament impresses me very much; I will certainly talk Rank and Sachs into going.
I haven't worked at all since Brioni. Yesterday I began correcting my “History of the ψα Movement.” The next time you come here you will be able to admire a ψα gallery like the one in Worcester.4 Stanley Hall has