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Baden-Baden, September 9, 1929
Werdestrasse 14
Dear Professor,
Now it is necessary to report about a very, very long period of time.
The pleasant visit with you was followed by two months' stay in St. Moritz. Being inundated with work made it impossible for me, with the exception of a few days, to enjoy the region and its incomparable beauties; it was positively the torments of Tantalus. In between came the Congress in Oxford—which went uneventfully, to be sure—but was, on the whole, extremely unpleasant and arduous, and which friend Jones strove, where possible, to make even more disagreeble for us (or only for me?). All that seemed not to have done my body and my mood any good—I also thought that the constant high altitude (St. Moritz is situated above 1,800 meters) makes me uncomfortable—, and so I decided to go to the Groddecks' again, in whose friendly house I usually recuperated well. So I packed up my belongings