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243A
Berlin
14 August 1914
Dear Professor,
I presume that by now you are back in Vienna. Unfortunately, I have had no news from you for some time; what may have happened to you all in the meantime? Did your sons have to join the Landsturm? What has happened to Rank, Sachs, Ferenczi? Our lively correspondence has come to a complete standstill. I still have to wait, am Landsturm and volunteer physician. I shall probably be employed in this latter capacity quite soon. I know no particulars as yet.
The first great victories have done very much to raise morale here. We have had practically no news from the battle-fronts since the day before yesterday. Presumably great things are happening even now. So we are in a state of utmost tension.
The practice has, to my surprise, increased somewhat again this week. This was supposed to have been the holidays, and we should be in the Tyrol just now! But in times like these, one has to give up holidays for the sake of a little more financial security. I am working three, four hours a day. There is too little tranquillity for scientific work. We are living from one newspaper to the next; scarcely satisfied with one lot of news, one already longs for the next.
My family is well; I hope it is the same with you. For a long time now I have not heard how your sister-in-law's convalescence has progressed.
In the hope of receiving good news soon (postcard or open letter1) and with the most cordial greetings from house to house.
Yours,
Abraham