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52takes about 14 or 15 days for a letter to travel from here to Warsaw. If you donot write immediately after receiving my letter... If I do not receive a letterfrom you within a month, I hesitate to think what will become of me!Moreover, you must reply quickly, for I will definitely leave London early inJanuary, after I receive my subsidy. All my interests indicate that this is whatI should do. As of now, I plan to go directly to Bonn, in Prussia; but this is notdefinite. Therefore, in order that your letter may still find me here, please writewithin 2 or 3 days after you have received mine.There is no doubt in my mind that we should be together within a year.Dear Alexandra, you can hardly imagine how much this thought cheers me!You cannot imagine how great is my desire to change the rest of my trip to asingle day, even a single moment, in order to be able to greet and embrace yousooner; to thank you for the sacrifice you have made for me, and to livetogether, merging our destinies completely! My stipend for next year willinclude nine more months. I am obliged to finish my sabbatical in September.However I cannot see myself remaining away from you for that length of time.I will surely see you in August at the latest. Be calm! Be patient! The end ofour troubles is not far off. Live in hope. Remain always the one I love as Iimagine you and your relationship with me. Evil can be a condition for good,if we only know how to profit by it. The sacrifice we both made by separatingfor a time, along with the suffering this separation has caused, can make ourfuture all the more pleasant, perfect and happy, if only because the roadleading to it was thornier.My health continues to be good. Every thing is expensive here. Mybudgeting has not been the best. [Remember: admitting a mistake is alreadyhalf-way toward correcting it. Do not let a lack of thriftiness, to which I admit,cause you to be angry, for, honestly, I have already begun to reform. It will beup to you to complete the reform by handling our common funds in the future].I repeat: Everything here is expensive. As a result of my former financialdifficulties and lack of economy, I had very little money left after paying my