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Vienna, April 22, 1920
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I, too, gladly give in to the need to write to you. Thanks for your announcements of works; I will be mindful of your theoretical stimulation. I have been incapable of work the whole time—beyond the nine hours of analysis. But my condition probably sprang from an intolerance toward the good cigars, which I had smoked in greater frequency on account of the diminution of the weak ones. A kind of abstinence is slowly improving it.
Varga is still slyly running around, but he intends to put the matter in order before he leaves on vacation.
The episode in the Hotel Regina was a new indication of the unreliability of the Viennese in every situation.
My wife went to Hamburg on the 19th of the month; she will have seen Ernst with his bride1 in Berlin.
All kinds of little things are happening here. It will interest you to know that my brother-in-law Bernays in New York2 donated a million crowns in his wife's name to the children's relief organization here. I have the honor of sitting on the steering committee of the endowment with Tandler,3 Pirquet,4 dean and mayor.5
I hope you are well with wife and daughter, and that in a week Kata Lévy brings me a letter from you.
Cordially,
Freud