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Csorbató
27 August 1918
Dear Friend,
You are right, I have not seen you since the beginning of the war. Correspondence has been no compensation for that. I am therefore quite specially looking forward to our meeting at the Congress in Breslau and hope that I shall have no travelling difficulties.
I did not answer your last letter, I think because I was then too angry and too starving. Here I have recovered and regained my composure. The reception in Budapest by my new friends was charming, the mountain air of the Tatras did the rest, and so for a time I can venture to join again in
Bearing the world's pleasure and the world's pain.1
I ascribe a good share of my better spirits to the prospects that have opened up in Budapest for the development of our cause. Materially we shall be strong, we shall be able to maintain and expand our journals and exert an influence, and there will be an end to the begging we have had to do heretofore. The man whom we shall have to thank for this is not merely a wealthy man, but a man of sterling worth and high intellectual gifts, who is greatly interested in analysis; he is in fact the sort of person whom one would have to invent if he did not already exist. Faithlessness on his part is out of the question. He is a Ph.D. but a beer brewer, and I think his youthful model was Jacobsen2 in Copenhagen.