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7 February 1921
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I am so much pleased by your letter I got today that I begin answering it at once. You shall have no cause to complain that the institution of the Circulars cut short our private correspondence. Perhaps I will have no time to finish it being invited to dinner at the Friends Society this evening.1 If so I will continue at my habitual [time]2 hour in the night. My people tease me by the promise, I will find there no other dish but “Quaker-oats”.
There are so many points in your letter asking for a reply that I had to make notes and number them. I). Hamlet. I agree with you that the proof produced by that Diary is far too incomplete and undirect to settle the matter. I am glad to hear you will keep your eye on it. Yet it is evident that there is much slippery ground in many of our applications from ΨA to biography and literature. I got a similar impression referring to the findings of Reitler on Leonardo (which I inserted into the 2d edition)3 and if I must not be prepared to retract as well in my own conclusions about this great man, my proliction may be simply and solely the extreme dearth of the material. It is the danger inherent in our method of concluding from