Translations:CP 02992/33/en
I didn’t understand what you told me about my broker, but as I am not obliged to raise the securities[1], it is all the same to me. Moreover those shares are lower than in June. Nevertheless I’m going to write to him that he can put a stop to the gamble[2], if he wishes. You have been of course kind, clever, delightful, in all of your advice and giving it to me so quickly and in so much detail. But it seems to me (and I say this very affectionately), that you have been a little less so when you said you were happy that I had been assigned into the armed services because you know very well that in my current state of health it would be the death of me in forty eight hours. To be sure there is nothing pleasant about the life I lead and even knowing that I can be of no use whatsoever to the army, I am making myself useful by allowing myself to be excluded. But I very much want to finish the book I have started and put into it the truths that I know will give many people sustenance and which otherwise will perish along with me. But anyway (and this is my primary reason for my delay in thanking you) just after I received your letter I was unexpectedly informed of the visit of some new military doctors, to my great astonishment because I had been deferred for six months (no doubt due to the Dalbiez act[3]). The consequence was that on the contrary I am being put forward for Discharge. I hope I am not causing you any distress by telling you this.