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372A
Berlin-Grünewald, Bismarckallee 14
4 April 1920
Dear Professor,
That was really a disappointment!1 I could now have been with you and all our closest friends, had it not been for the countless difficulties of travelling! I must at least send a few lines to follow up my telegram.2 Unfortunately, the telegraphic invitation arrived too late! First I had to get my photograph taken on Monday and use the four days at my disposal for all the different things I had to do until I had everything needed from the local authorities. But unfortunately one must also have Austrian and Czech visas. There was such an enormous crowd before Easter at both consulates that I went away with my business not done. I was really dependent on the only train going via Prague on Saturday morning. If that had been a daily train, I should have been able to travel today (Sunday), but it does not run again until Tuesday. And the trains via Bavaria were quite impossible, because you would have got stuck either in Regensburg or in Passau. If your invitation had only come a few days earlier, or if I had already had a passport and only needed a visa from the consulate, everything would have gone smoothly! Now we shall probably not meet until the autumn.
I have done a great deal of writing during recent weeks. While it lasted, the general strike cut my practice down to half, and so I had sufficient free time. The article for the Neue Rundschau, amounting to some 20 pages, has now been sent off and will be published in June or July; its title is “Ψα as a Source of Knowledge for the Humanities”.3 The