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Allenstein
28 May 1917
Dear Professor,
So, your long silence was due to postal delays. Your letter of the 20th arrived here yesterday. I was pleased to learn from it that you and all your family are well and especially wish you at this moment continued good news from your warrior on the Isonzo. Many thanks for all your news. I very much regret that there is no prospect of a meeting yet.
The arrived at the same time as your letter; a particularly good and substantial number—amazingly good for wartime! I can make no comment on your paper,1 except to agree with it. I was especially pleased with Ferenczi's essay.2 I held a talk here on the same theme more than a year ago which coincides in every detail with what he writes. I may soon write a short supplementary paper, since it might be possible to add some important points that I have recently come to understand. The variety of his contributions to the last issue3 proves to me that Ferenczi is well on the way to recovery. I shall write to him one of these days. It is a good thing in these difficult times that Sachs, with his characteristic devotion, can dedicate himself to the journals. Who knows what would otherwise have become of them.
There is not much new to say about us. We shall spend the summer holidays, which begin on 21 July, in Nidden on the Kurian spit of land, a little holiday resort that we already know and that offers a combination of the Baltic and a very beautiful forest. Before that I am going to Bremen for a few days, as my mother, who will soon be 70, is not well.
In spite of your appreciation of my two recent contributions, which I do not wish to belittle myself, I nevertheless feel dissatisfied with myself. It represents too small a harvest over three years, particularly since all the material on which it was based was ready before the war. Let us therefore continue to hope that the great change will soon come.
With the most cordial greetings from house to house,
Yours,
Karl Abraham