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305F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
18 December 1916
Dear Friend,
No. 2 of the with your splendid paper1 has at last appeared. The dream lectures went off to your address today. Your letter turned up at the right moment. I am delighted to hear that things are going
well, or what is called that nowadays, with you and yours! I gladly give you the same news about ourselves.
My eldest is at present with the cadre in Vienna and often stays with us, he is still holding out. Ernst is in the same place on the Italian front. Oliver is now with the Engineers in Cracow, is doing his first training there, and will then come to the training school in Krems. He has settled in quite well. My son-in-law, who is in an occupation suited to him, seems to be recovering well; he is still in Hanover. The little boy is charming and amusing; if there were as much good will and understanding on the part of the Entente as there is with him, we should long since have had peace. Meanwhile he has long since passed beyond the early stages that are so instructive to us.
It pains me to hear that you are so overburdened. I have little to do, so that at Christmas, for instance, I will again have reached rock-bottom.2 Leisure is not good for me, because my mental constitution urgently requires me to earn and spend money on my family in fulfilment of my father complex. In these circumstances, entirely against my intention, my hopes turn to the Nobel Prize, though we are all aware that there too we must count on the resistances that are that are so familiar to us. This makes the conflict very irritating, almost humiliating. (Perseveration!3) C.C. is often very necessary.
Reik's most recent address known to me is Lieutenant Dr Th. R., k. u. k. mob. Res. Hospital Nr. 4/3, Forces' postal service 279.
I cannot vouch for its still being valid. Last month he came here on leave and asked a great deal about you. Why does he not write to you?
With cordial greetings for Christmas-time. I hope I shall hear from you