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346F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
2 December 1918
Dear Friend,
I received your letter of a few weeks ago, but did not answer it immediately because there was something that I wanted to let mature first, and meanwhile I wanted to send you the statutes to have your opinion on them. When the latter failed to appear for such a long time, I also postponed the other news I had for you.
You will have seen from the statutes that I have undertaken the administration of the Bárczy fund.1 From the interest I propose to award two annual prizes, as an honour to the winners, of course, not for the enrichment or compensation of the authors. One prize is to be for an outstanding medical paper, and the other for one of the type. Provision is made for the division of the prize if two works are of outstanding merit, but the greater or smaller cash value of the prize should not be connected with any greater or smaller estimation of the value of the work. Each prize is of 1,000 crowns, which nowadays means very little. I chose the period of war up to the Budapest Congress as the first for which prizes are to be awarded; subsequently they will be awarded annually. In order not to have to exclude the best from the potential prize-winners, I did not appoint a panel of judges. What remains