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Budapest, May 25, 1930
Dear Professor,
It will interest you to hear that I decided to buy a house in a somewhat better area on the slope of the right bank of the Danube (in Buda) in order to move into a residence with a garden, which suits me better. On this occasion I am pressed to express the hope that at some time or other you will give us the pleasure of spending a few days in our city.
I still remember how, on your first visit to Budapest, you showed me a villa (it was the villa of the surgeon, Professor Herczel) and said: “In ten to twelve years you will also have a villa and an automobile, like Privy Councillor Herczel.”
The automobile is not yet here, but your prophecy has come true—except for the time (twenty-two years).
The purchase of the house also signifies to a certain extent what you called the “idyllic solution” to my problems, but that on no account means limiting intercourse with the outside world.
Kind regards to you and Fräulein Anna.
Yours,
Ferenczi