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Vienna XIX, Strassergasse 47
April 19, 1936
Dear Barbara Low
I know that you have not thought that the death of your brother-in-law David1 had left me untroubled, because I had not written at once and directly to you and your sister. On the contrary, it concerned me in a quite special way, which I cannot explain to anyone who is not eighty likewise. My age gives me a right to a special relation* to death. Eder belonged to the people one loves without having to trouble about them. One's heart warmed at the thought of him; of course one did not think of him often enough and for that one feels sorry today. This is the danger with people one knows to be so entirely faithful, true and reliable. One thinks one can pause whenever one likes; when one meets