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Sils-Maria, Engadine, Haus Gilly
30 June 1924
Dear Professor,
I was distressed to hear that you gave up your journey to Switzerland.1 I have no idea where you will spend your holidays now, but must naturally agree with you that it is better not to be too far away from Vienna. Since travel restrictions in Germany have been lifted, I could perhaps come at the end of my vacation to wherever you are staying. I
therefore hope to hear sometime where you will be spending the first half of August.
It is 18 years since I was in the Engadine and I am again as enchanted with it as on all previous occasions. Especially now in the spring there are more flowers in bloom here than anywhere else in the Alps. It is well before the season and therefore everything is rather empty, enabling us to enjoy to the full all the splendours of the alpine mountains. This time we have rented a small flat and brought our tried and trusted “mainstay” from Berlin, and we are looking after ourselves. Our flat is completely self-contained. The living-room is a typical Engadine room with a three-cornered bay window, panelled walls and ceiling, built-in furniture, etc., more comfortable than any hotel would ever have been; the bedrooms are large, light, and immaculately arranged.
Some daily analytic work—for the time being only one patient is here—keeps me in contact with my customary activity. Apart from that I am writing on the new edition of Segantini for Deuticke and am going over my Congress paper.2 If you, dear Professor, should wish to read it, I could send you the manuscript sometime (but you are not to say yes just to please me!).
I hope you are getting on quite well on the whole, despite your rather frequent difficulties, and I would be very, very happy to hear it confirmed by you yourself once more. Your last letter sounded so much more hopeful and positive and showed clearly that you had even got your sense of humour back. It is pleasant to hear news like that more often.
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