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212F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
13 May 1914
Dear Friend,
Many thanks for your rich letter! I had no suspicion of a “dog-bite”. Meanwhile I have been ill again myself and have been having a bad time in general, as if worry and work were at last wearing me down!
My last bout of intestinal trouble caused my personal physician1 to take the precaution of carrying out a rectoscopy, after which he congratulated me so warmly that I concluded that he had regarded a carcinoma as highly probable.
So this time it is nothing. I must struggle on. Our summer is still not settled at all. If, as Rank suggests, you manage to have 20-21 September (Sunday!) accepted as the date of the Congress, we can have our private meeting beforehand on the 19th, I shall be able to postpone my lecture in Leyden to, say, the 23rd, and then move on to see my daughter and grandchild in Hamburg. My little one can cross over from England and