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357F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
6 July 1919
Dear Friend,
You are right, this is still not a proper correspondence. There are also weeks in which for some inner reason one cannot bring oneself to take a pen in hand. My wife has, I can say, completely recovered. She is going on the 15th inst. to the Parsch Sanatorium near Salzburg, and at the same time my sister-in-law and I are going to Gastein. (Her doctor insists on trying a high-altitude climate and a completely quiet life.) My daughter is trying to arrange a visit to Bavaria, near Reichenhall, with a friend.1
Do not be surprised that we are choosing such expensive holidays in these times. Everything near Vienna is even more expensive, almost prohibitive, most summer resorts are forbidden, and anything to do with foreign travel is still unbearably bothersome. And yet we do not want to give up a possible recreation as long as it is warm. Who knows how many of us will survive next winter, which is expected to be bad. And the certainty of financial decline as a result of our national situation does not encourage thrift.
We were completely cut off from Budapest for 3-4 weeks. Now Rank can speak to his journal2 there by telephone again, and we are hoping in this way to learn the essentials about what is happening to Ferenczi and Freund.
Tausk shot himself a few days ago.3 You remember his behaviour at the Congress. He was weighed down by his past and by the recent experiences of the war; he should have been married this week, but could not struggle on any longer. Despite his outstanding talents, he was of no use to us.