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Vienna, June 27, 1899
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
Many thanks for the long letter, which I hardly deserve. It is my lot to wait, and in resignation I have given up my habit of complaining about the unbridgeable distance. I hope the path you have taken will lead you even farther and even deeper, and that as the new Kepler you will unveil the ironclad rules of the biological mechanism to us. Indeed you have your calling in life.
You do not mention how your wife is. Since you are an optimist and I am a pessimist, I should probably draw unfavorable inferences from this? I want to postpone it for a while, though. That your