DOCS.
273, 274 JULY-AUGUST
1911 195
273. To
the Eleventh
Congress
of
Polish
Physicians
and Natural Scientists
[Prague,
before
21
July
1911][1]
Phys.
Inst.
of the
Univ. in
Cracow,
St.
Anna
Street[2]
To
the
Congress
of
Physicians
in
Cracow[3]
I send
best
wishes for
productive
work
and
send
my
regrets ---
274.
From
Alfred
Stern,
with
Postscript
from Clara Stern
[Forest
Hotel,
Vermala
sur Sierre],
2
August
1911
Dear
Professor,
"Good
things
take
time,"
we
told ourselves when
we
received
your
letter of
30
June.
We
were
very
happy
about
your
report
and
do
not
doubt that
you, your wife,
and
the
two
"little bears"
will find
Prague
more
and
more
to
your
liking-until
you get
a
call to
Vienna
or
Berlin!
It
is
especially
nice
that
you
did
so
well
musically
with
the
quartet.[1]
-
From
music it
is
an
easy
transition
to
the
surprise
that
our
Emmchen[2]
sprung not
only
upon
you
and
many
others but
upon
us as
well.- To
be
sure,
we
knew
the
name
of
the
Kiel concertmaster
Darmstadt
(native
of
Mainz,
working as a
violinist in
the
orchestra,
leader
of
a
quartet,
and
founder
and
conductor of
symphonic
summer
concerts
on
the
Baltic
seashore)
from
her
stories,
and
we
also knew
that
he
studied
together
with
her
at
the
Leipzig conservatory
7 years
ago.
But
the resolution of the
joyful
drama
followed
on
the heels of
the
exposition
in
Aachen
(where
he visited
her),
and
after that
everything
went
prestissimo,
which
was bewildering, exciting,
and
exhausting
for
us.
The
civil marriage
took
place already
on
26
July
in
Kiel,
where
we
had
to
travel
in
tropical
heat.
Toni
came
just
in time from
London
(where
she
studied
enthusiastically
with
Auer
this
summer),
Dora from
Berlin.[3] Hurriedly,
in
even
hotter
weather,
we
went
back
to
Switzerland,
and
only
here,
where
we
arrived
on
28
July
with
Dora
and
Toni,
within
sight
of
the Valais
Alps
and
amid
magnificent
fir
forests,
did
we
breathe
a
sigh
of
relief.
The
young
couple
will visit
us
in
Zurich
during
the
first
half
of
September.
It
would be
wonderful
if
just
at
that
time
you
were
to
turn
up on
the
Limmat[4]
on
your
way
to
the
teacher's
courses.
Perhaps
you
would
then
also meet with Prof. de
Bye[5],
with whom
I
recently spent
an
afternoon
at
Hurwitz's,[6]
and whom I like
very
much.
The
two
of
you
will be interested
to
learn that Emmchen
will
shortly play
Beethoven's
Concerto
in
G-major
under
the musical
direction of her
husband.
Let's
hope
that
in
the
course
of time
he will succeed in
obtaining
a
post
that
is
more
to the south,
closer
to
Switzerland.