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292F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
8 May 1916
Dear Friend,
I have just got round to answering your letter last of all, though it was the first to arrive. Because of announcements in the Berlin papers the day could not be kept as secret as I should have wished, and it was just those in the middle distance, who knew nothing about my wishes, who did the most and thus gave me a great deal of work. I have also received so many flowers from Vienna that I have lost all claim to further funeral wreaths, and Hitschmann slipped me an “undelivered speech” that was so moving and laudatory that when the time comes I shall be entitled to ask to be buried without a funeral oration.
The paper with which you presented me is as excellent as—everything that you have been doing in recent years, distinguished by its many-sidedness, depth, correctness, and, incidentally, it is in full agreement with the truth as it is known to me. It is so crystal clear that it seems to cry out for a graphic representation of the intersecting and merging mental forces. It shall not, however, remain mine in the sense of being kept from others. Shall we keep it in reserve for a while in case our Jahrbuch is resurrected? Otherwise we shall print it into the .
I have little news to tell you. I have probably already written to you that my second son's marriage will be formally dissolved in a few weeks.1 It is no misfortune, although he is taking it rather hard, but quite the contrary, besides it is quite a respectable simple business. The girl, who had beforehand thought that she could cope with all possible difficulties, is a runaway, and took flight from the task of combining her medical studies with his engineer's life. We only hear from the other two with a fortnight's delay. My son-in-law is still convalescing in Hamburg; he has had a bit of a traumatic neurosis. I do not know whether it will be taken into account. My daughter and grandchild are naturally staying there.
We are all tremendously pleased that