Sie wissen wahrscheinlich nicht ganz genau, was Phäno-
menalismus bedeutet, aber es wird Sie freuen zu hören, dass Dr.
Husserl's sogenannte Lehre seit den letzten 20 Jahren den grössten
Einfluss auf die verschiedensten Zweige deutscher Wissenschaft
ausübt. Ich hoffe, ich werde Ihre Tochter hier sehen. Da ich immer
nur auf acht oder höchstens vierzehn Tage im Frühjahr wegzugehen
pflege, wird sie mich zu Hause finden.
I hope you and your husband are continually very well and
so I also heard in Margaret's second letter. I am sorry that I can-
not tell you whether I will come to the United States. At any rate,
it will not be before the Indian summer. I have to be very busy all
the time, but it is my firm purpose to spend at least part of September
and October in England and then it might be possible to jump over for a fortnight or three
weeks. To see my friends in New York, Washington and, of course, Phi-
ladelphia and Cambridge, Mass. would be the finest thing I could do
for my own wishes, but you know for a stabilized Austrian crossing
the pond means an immense outlay of money. On the other hand, I do
not wish always to come to America as lecturer. I should like to en-
joy the more pleasant side of life at least once more in the United
States. Here in Vienna things are as nasty as it is possible in a
big town , the bigness of which is senseless and the poverty of which
is the natural consequence of inveterate deficiencies of Austrian
character and of the impossible delimination of this country provided