My dear Frau Hoppstock,
Gertrud Baer has already written you, I am sure, that I have been obliged to give up all my speaking engagements for [this] autumn. I was seriously ill for several days in Torquay and the doctor insisted that if I remained in Europe at all I should have to do very little speaking and live the life of an invalid for several months. This medical verdict was confirmed by a doctor whom we later saw in Paris, so that I have no choice in the matter but to carry out these instructions.
It was a great pleasure to see you at our Dublin Congress.
We very much enjoyed two weeks on the west coast after the Congress.
I am sure I need not tell you again how bitterly disappointed I am not to come to Hamburg and I hope you will forgive me for all the trouble in the preparations which you have made.
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