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253A
Berlin
28 October 1914
Dear Professor,
This letter is to accompany the manuscript1 I have owed you for so long. I am still deeply immersed in hospital work, and the few remaining hours are taken up by the practice. Perhaps Rank will be good enough to undertake the small job of proof-reading, to avoid posting to and fro in these uncertain times.
Your Martin will certainly get better quickly under his mother's tender care. I send all my best wishes to your two sons in the army! And naturally to the peaceful members of your family as well. I am curious to know what will happen with Reik. Do yet others of our friends have to go into the Landsturm? I have heard nothing of Eitingon for a long time. Do you know anything about him? I myself am here for the present. But it is not impossible that I may have to go to a foreign hospital. What is Ferenczi's situation in this respect?
The practice is taking its quiet course, three to four hours per day. I recently started treating one of your former patients, Dr Veneziani2. I have not heard anything more of Frau Hi….3 I am still occupied with your niece's4 affairs. Her fiancé has again suffered serious attacks outside Berlin, and lay for quite a long time with stitched-up wounds. She has come to see reason and is ready for renunciation, only the mode to a solution is difficult.
The thought of peaceful journeys in the future is wonderful. But one hardly wants to think about it. We would also be very much in favour of Berchtesgaden. Let us wait and see with Ψα patience!
I intend to call an informal meeting of our greatly reduced group. There will hardly be any scientific activity.
These are hard days at the front. But people are, on the whole, full of confidence. Even the sense of humour is dawning again. A shop selling uniforms and fashion goods displays a placard saying: “Field grey, the fashionable colour for 1914.” Among the funny Germanizations of English words and names there is one very good one: How do you translate Shakespere