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117F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
2 November 1911
Dear Friend,
I too remember fondly the beautiful days and face a relatively unsatisfactory present. The practice is not as full as it was last year, I can still pass on very little. To begin with Herr Schönlank cancelled, as you know; so he has not yet translated his motives into action. It is to our great detriment that we have no Ψα-led institution here in which I could place all four assistants and train new ones. But Vienna is not the ground on which anything can be done.
What gave me most pleasure in your letter were the numerous germs of works, some of which you trace back directly to Weimar. I too am using a period of relative leisure to go more deeply into the work I mentioned to you.1 I already have the major results beforehand, but reading and collecting in order to provide proof for them is very tedious, and the end is not in sight for some time to come. Anything in the nature of a pleasure gain can only arise at the stage of final shaping, and God alone knows when I shall be able to get to that.
To maintain the parallel still further, let me tell you that I have completed the purge of the Society and sent Adler's seven followers packing after him.2 The decrease in numbers is of no importance, work will be much easier now, but, with the single exception of Rank, I have no one here in whom I can take complete pleasure. Perhaps Sachs,3 the second editor of the still unborn journal, will rise to the occasion. My spirits have not been improved by the fact that my offer to publish it has been rejected in three (actually, four) quarters. Perhaps it will work out with our member Heller4 now.
Hirschfeld's resignation is really no loss. His personality is not prepossessing and his receptivity equals zero. In your difficult position, however, I would have rather you had additions. I shall write H. a few