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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
10 December1 1917
Dear Friend,
I am using the leisure of a Sunday to reply to your letter of the 2nd inst. (and I am freezing so as I do so that I made the mistake of writing the 7th month). In the streets they have just called out the news of the armistice with Russia,2 and if one had not grown so blunted, one would be glad at having survived the end of half the war.
Sachs has told me of your proposal. It is impracticable, since it involves Deuticke, who has stopped everything since the beginning of the war, and is also very ill and angry besides, because the Lectures are being published by Heller. Meanwhile what I feared has rapidly come true. The last issue of (No. 2), which has been printed for a long time, cannot be distributed because no wrapping paper is obtainable, and Prochaska has already announced that he has no paper for Rank's Artist,3 of which Heller wanted to produce a second edition. Officially we have not ceased publication, and perhaps we shall be able to drag on for some time yet. Sachs still hopes to avoid the ignominy of having to stop before the last issue of the (No. 6) without being able