Vienna, April 23, 1926
IX., Berggasse 19

Dear friend,

Yes, Rank is gone from Vienna, first to Paris, but that is probably only a stop on the way to America. The motives may be manifold; the fact that he can't find a proper place to live here certainly plays a part; also the need to conceal difficulties with his wife, the outcome of which can't be foreseen. The main thing, however, is that he has now carried out in a so to speak sober, cold way what he originally wanted to achieve in the stormy attack of illness: loosing himself from me and from all of us. What is unambiguous