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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
13 January 1917
Dear Friend,
My warm thanks for your letter! The most important thing is that you are well and are able to enjoy your family. In such circumstances the value of a good wife, in itself inestimable, is immeasurably increased. I can well imagine that the small town offers you nothing but work, work, and not the kind of work that one desires. From another letter that arrived at the same time as yours I gather that Liebermann is again with you.
Your second, hardly less splendid paper is to appear in Number 4 of the . Number 3 is already at the printer's, with a paper by me,1 which I shall send you in proof as soon as the block that goes with it is ready. The situation with regard to the Jahrbuch is uncertain, as you know. Deuticke seems to be offended at the Lectures being published by Heller,2 though I warned him a long time ago that his repeated rejections of our periodicals would ultimately have that consequence.
I have asked Karger to send the fifth edition of Everyday Life straight to you. According to my calculations the book must long since have been ready, but I have not yet received it.3
Your praise of the Lectures has done me a great deal of good at this moment. Living in isolation as one does nowadays, one has vigorously to remind oneself that there are still a few people for whom it is worth writing. Otherwise one would forget, and, though one does go on working for oneself, one would not commit it to paper.
Your Eulenspiegel dream will be used in the .
My boys are for the moment out of danger. Martin is with the cadre in Vienna. Ernst, who had tonsillitis and was able to convalesce in S. Cristoforo on Lake Caldonazzo,4 is supposed to come on leave next