261A

Berlin
26 December 1914

Dear Professor,

Your letter dated 21 and postmarked 22 December reached me on the 24th. Postal services seem to be improving. Of course, letters from here to Austria must also be sent unsealed. The fact that my last letters arrived in closed envelopes must have been due to the censorship department. Your letters also sometimes arrive sealed, with the censor's stamp on the reverse.

I am glad to hear that your family is well again; I myself am still not quite well; the catarrh refuses to budge. My wife has been ill in bed since Tuesday: influenza, tonsillitis, and a rash like scarlet fever, but certainly benign. I only hope it will not be the children's turn next. My travel