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Hotel Bristol, Salzburg
July 27, 1916
My dear Frau Lou
I hasten to tell you that in view of the difficulties of this summer we have settled here in the hotel for a prolonged stay. The stimulations and comforts of the beautiful town, the guarantee of the postal connections and the food supply, have caused us to renounce the otherwise so greatly needed contact with the country. At the moment we are looking forward to the furlough of our son Ernst, in whom you observed a resemblance to R. M. Rilke.1 The latter, whom I should like to congratulate on having regained his freedom2 as a poet, has made it quite clear to us in Vienna that “no lasting alliance can be forged with him.”3 Cordial as he was on his first visit, it was impossible to persuade him to pay a second one.
As soon as I get back I will dispatch the books you ask for (Holt's