You see the matter is this way. You can't come up here and go back the
same day--at least that would give you but about an hour here. You
must remain over night. Now I put it to you--how do you think I'd feel
if you came and remained over night and I, having work to do, should
have to leave you to your own devices, mooning about a place that has
nobody to talk to? When a fellow comes a long way to see me I want to
see a good deal of him, however _he_ may feel about it. It is not the
same as if he lived in the same bailiwick and "dropped in." That is
why, in the present state of my health and work, I ask all my friends
to give me as long notice of their coming as possible. I'm sure you'll
say I am right, inasmuch as certain work if undertaken must be done by
the time agreed upon.
My relations with Danziger are peculiar--as any one's relations with
him must be. In the matter of which you wished to speak I could say
nothing. For this I must ask you to believe there are reasons. It
would not have been fair not to let you know, before coming, that I
would not talk of him.
I thought, though, that you would probably come up to-day if I wrote
you. Well, I should like you to come and pass a week with me. But if
you come for a day I naturally want it to be an "off" day with me.
Sincerely yours,