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7 July 19141
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
It was a bad time for letter-writing, the hottest weather and the most intense work of the year. I am pretty worn out and resolved to shut up next Saturday; our departure has become uncertain by the sudden illness of my sister in law, a bad influenza with bronchopneumonia, she is feverish since a week and as you know, there is no saying what may become of it. My daughter will leave the 7th of this month, pass over to England the 15th and no doubt you will have opportunity to see her in August or before.
As for Loe, the morphia campaign has miscarried; in the trial to get loose from it she developed such a misery that it could not be followed up in the short time before us. She had begun too late, given herself much pain consciously but internal resistance is still too great. As for the last years success it is easy to understand she conceded it only because she was not