10 June 1919
69 Portland Court, London

Dear Professor,

Your kind but sad letter (28/5]1 came this morning. I am concerned first of all at the news of poor von Freund, of whom I heard such good things when in Switzerland, and whom I greatly want to meet. You do not say that the tumour is malignant, so I trust there is still hope.

You are right, no doubt, in saying that in spite of my efforts to inform myself I am still out of contact with the conditions in Austria, and am extremely sad to think of dear Vienna suffering so. I know that travelling is impossible in Germany, but hoped that your route to Switzerland was still open. Things are not likely to be much better for a while. I therefore