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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
January 26, 1920
Dear Mother
I have some sad news for you today. Yesterday morning our dear lovely Sophie died from galloping influenza and pneumonia. We learned of it at noon from a telephone conversation with Minna in Reichenhall. Oli and Ernst have left Berlin to be with Max. Robert and Mathilde are leaving on the twenty-ninth to try and assist the poor bereaved man. Martha is too upset; one couldn't let her undertake the journey, and in any case she wouldn't have found Sophie alive.
She is the first of our children we have to outlive. What Max will