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163A
Berlin
20 July 1913
Dear Professor,
I do not want to disturb your holiday peace with a long letter. I would like to refer to just one point in your last letter, now that you have enjoyed a week of holiday and therefore will surely have become more receptive to my arguments.
You wrote that you would not be speaking in Munich. I hope you only wrote this while overly tired out with work in the last weeks in Vienna. For, if this were your last word, it would not be a proper congress any longer. I believe I act on behalf of the circle, which will assemble already on 6 September, if I ask you most sincerely to ensure the importance and effectiveness of the Congress by giving a paper. Who knows how much unpleasantness will occur? There is nothing that would be more suitable as a counterweight. You remember the effect your personal appearance had in Munich in November, and there it was only a report on the irksome politics. How much more favourable will the effect of a scientific paper be in the present situation! I do not want to pursue it further. Eitingon, who is visiting you today, will surely succeed in persuading you to change your mind. My best blessings go with him.
That is all for today. I am here until 26 July, then my address will be: Pension “Ozon”, Noordwijk aan Zee. Perhaps you might send me there your address in San Martino.
With cordial greetings to you and yours,
your devoted
Abraham