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Budapest, October 28, 1923
Dear Professor,
Now that I know you again to be in your abode, I dare to write to you in order finally to give expression to my great joy over the success of the grave intervention that caused us so much worry.1 I know, to be sure, that you still have great unpleasantness to bear, but I must admit that sympathy that comes into consideration with me is small in comparison with my gratification over the fact that everything that is diseased has been removed and that we are fully justified in hoping for your restoration.—As a genuine “Jewish orderly,” I can share with you the fact that I reacted to the news of the operation that was carried out with a severe indisposition, in which I put into operation all the mechanisms at my disposal (intestine, heart, etc.) as never before. The whole thing lasted only a day, and every trace of it was gone in a few days.
I hear from Kata Lévy, who knows it from Fräulein Anna, that you are already restored to the extent that you are reading—whether you are also