124A

Berlin
28 April 1912

Dear Professor,

There has not been anything special to report lately, that is why I have not taken up your time with correspondence. Your letter, received some days ago, gives me a reason for writing, above all to thank you for the patient—though she has not arrived yet—and for the offprint from .1 And at the same time to send you my congratulations on this third child! I am delighted with the tasteful presentation; everybody likes it. Your contribution is particularly important to me because of my own gradually maturing interests. My own long-overdue contribution to (Amenhotep) is almost ready. The practice, which remains almost constantly on the same high level, is absorbing me. In addition there are quite a few family matters—first a serious illness of my father,