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401A
GruUnewald
10 August 1921
Dear Professor,
I owe you thanks for the prompt answer to my request, and I am glad that you agree with the results of the short work. I would have liked to get some information about the “hollow way”, but as I have no expert available immediately, I preferred to leave this detail out completely.
I hope you will be able to enjoy the next few weeks in Seefeld with your family. In the meantime I shall go on working up to our meeting. I
have seldom had such scientifically satisfying material. It seems that a supplement to the problem of melancholy is taking shape1; perhaps I can talk about it in the autumn, as well as about a few other new discoveries.
Your Ernst, who is a very proud and happy father, recently spent an evening with us. He is designing a re-furbishing of my study for me, which promises to be very fine.
Now I have two more questions, but there is absolutely no hurry for the answers. Perhaps in the course of the next few weeks you would give me a brief opinion. (1.) Would it be all right if, for our meeting, I were to pick you up from Hamburg, so that we could travel together to the general meeting-place in Hanover?2 (More details about that in the circular letter, which will reach you via Rank in the next few days). In that case I should like to ask Herr Halberstadt to take a photograph of me while I am there. (2.) It was mentioned in an earlier circular letter that the expenses of our meeting would be paid through a fund. As I should like to make arrangements for lodgings etc. in several places some time in advance, it would be convenient for me to know whether I must keep to certain limits in the choice of hotels, rooms, etc. In my view it would not be a bad thing at all if everybody were to contribute to the costs; but as in first-class hotels prices have now risen greatly, I should prefer not to have to act entirely off my own bat.
Sachs came back yesterday and was our guest in the evening. He has become considerably slimmer,