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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
December 13, 1912
My dear little Anna
I hear you are already worrying again about your immediate future. So it seems that putting on 31/4 pounds still hasn't changed
you much. I now want to set your mind at rest by reminding you that the original plan was to send you to Italy for eight months in the hope that you would return straight and plump and at the same time quite worldly and sensible. Actually we hadn't dared to hope that a few weeks in Meran would achieve this transformation, and so had already prepared ourselves at your departure for not seeing you at the wedding or so soon afterwards in Vienna. I think you must now slowly accustom yourself to this terrible prospect. The ceremony can be performed quite well without you, for that matter also without guests, parties, etc., which you don't care for anyhow. Your plans for school can easily wait till you have learned to take your duties less seriously. They won't run away from you. It can only do you good to be a little happy-go-lucky and enjoy having such lovely sun in the middle of winter.
So now, if you are reassured that your stay in Meran won't be interrupted in the immediate future, I can tell you that we all enjoy your letters very much but that we also won't be worried if you feel too lazy to write every day. The time of toil and trouble will come for you too, but you are still quite young.
Give my kind regards to Frau Marie and Edith and feel as well and happy as
Your Father
wants you to be.