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Allenstein
1 September 1916
Dear Professor,
Your letter of the 27th arrived today. How glad I would be to comply with your suggestion! But, from enquiries I have made in the meantime, I understand it is not possible to visit you on Austrian soil. The fact that your son had leave to visit Germany means nothing. I have been told that travel from Austria into Germany is far less restricted. There is, however, a strict blockade in the opposite direction, with exceptions made only for very special cases such as severe illness in the family. It is therefore impossible for me to come to Gastein or anywhere else.
I can understand that you do not wish to come to Munich. But how about meeting in some other Bavarian town? The Congress in Munich is from the 21st to the 23rd. I could keep a few days for you before the 22nd. As I am mainly interested in the proceedings of the 22nd, I could be with you also on the 23rd and 24th and the morning of the 25th. I have to be back in Allenstein by the morning of the 26th. I do not think you will have any difficulty, as you are no longer liable for military service. So if we could not meet in Munich, we could meet in Nuremberg or Regensburg, or naturally in any mountain region on German soil. It is some two years since we last met, and I should be so happy to see you again.
The three weeks of my leave will be spent as follows:
5-11 Sept.—with my wife on the nearby Baltic coast.
12 Sept.—Allenstein, to Bremen in the evening.
13-18 Sept.—Bremen.
18 or 19 18th—Berlin. In the evening to Munich or another place to be agreed on.