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Villa Schüler, Semmering
21 July 1925
Dear Friend,
No, writing is really no burden to me. I was delighted to have news of you so soon, because my thoughts often stray from an ego the claims of which have become a nuisance to other objects of love. When you describe how much you are occupied with the unaccustomed needs of your own “poor Conrad,”1 I am consoled, being experienced in the matter, by the certainty that you are having to practise this adaptation only for a short time. A permanent re-adaptation is far more difficult.
The unexpected situation has occurred that on looking through the list of Congress papers I was glad to see that your name is not among the speakers. With such a task ahead it would be difficult to rest the intellectual faculties. But we all hope that by the first week of September our president will have re-acquired his freedom of respiration and of action.