15 August 1922
The Plat, Elsted

Dear Professor,

I am spending the time till the Congress here in idyllic surroundings, though three patients I have (two melancholics) would suffice to remind me of work even if I did not have the Journal and Congress arrangements. I am sorry to say that Hiller has again been ill, first with bronchitis and then with a sharp attack of gallstones. Otherwise I have only good progress to report.

I suppose you still got my letters to Gastein? Two more comments on the topics in them. There are four sessions at the Congress whose presidency can be allotted. Assuming that you, as at the Hague, would not wish to be burdened with such work, I suggested that Abraham, Ferenczi, Oberholzer (there are 15 Swiss coming to the congress) and van Emden,