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Nidden on the Kurian spit of land
(Address from August 17th Allenstein again!)
10 August 1917
Dear Professor,
I hope that in the Hungarian mountains, where you suffered so badly from the weather at first, you have later been enjoying yourself so much that you and your family can have a perfect rest there. I am sending this letter to Csorbató. We too have landed in a remote corner, the most north-easterly of the fatherland. Nidden is about in the centre of the spit of land about 100 km long, on the Kurian lagoon, on the shore of which I am sitting writing. In absolutely wonderful weather we are enjoying nature in this secluded spit of land with its huge forests and sand-hills. In the mornings we usually go across to the other coast, to bathe. The children are so absolutely in their element; they mostly float on the water or go with us to pick berries. Afternoons and evenings are spent in excursions, sailing, etc. As we are also well looked after, we feel very happy here and disregard some shortcomings. For me it was high time to have longer holidays after last year's very great burden of work. Last winter, which was so particularly hard, I suffered a great deal, in the harsh climate of East Prussia, from bronchial catarrh with asthmatic symptoms. Even now I am unfortunately not free from it. However, I am in general satisfied with my recovery here.
As relative quiet reigns on the Italian front, I hope that all is still well with your familia militans at the front. The tragic event you reported, I mean the death of your nephew, must, especially now, have had a particularly distressing effect on his mother and all of you. After three years of fearing and hoping, to lose one's only son must be particularly difficult. In my family—not, indeed, among those closest to me—a similar case occurred.
I hope you and yours, among whom I may also count Ferenczi, are in good health.
Yesterday I read the third part of the Lectures to the end. I shall try to express my personal thanks i