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Vienna, December 20, 1874
¡Querido amigo!
I am answering you in such haste because the matter at issue in our last letters demands a hasty reply. You must not take me for being as ingenuous about legal affairs as the exhilaration of your incipient legal career inclines you to do; on the one hand you have misunderstood me, on the other there is another court of appeal open to me, one that you have not yet considered. Still, I shall drop the matter, pending later, perhaps face to face, discussions—or else you may take me at my word—and formulate my motion as follows: “The useless and irrational law not to treat members of the A.E. on their birthdays shall henceforth be deemed null and void.”1
I think you can have few objections, but nevertheless give you notice that should you intend to delay the decision by persistent objections beyond the due date, not even that legalistic trick will avail you, as the book would then be despatched to you by illegal means.