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September 26, 1967Dr. Erna Lesky, ProfessorHistory of MedicineWahringer Strabe 25Vienna, AustriaDear Dr. LeskyI thank you sincerely for your nice letter of September 19,1967. I of course have most of Billroth publications andpublications on Billroth, either in my possession or available,and of course your nice publication. Enclosed is a short work onBillroth's school. I certainly appreciate the invitation to spendtime in Vienna and I will certainly plan to do so at an appropriatetime. Are the letters available in your institute the publishedBillroth - Brahms - Meissner letters, edited by Fischer or OttoGottlieb-Billroth, etc., or do they include some unpublishedletters?I visited your institute two years ago and you can wellimagine how impressed I was by your wonderful work, and thetremendous collections! Could you tell me why Billroth, who wasso active in antisepsis, even though sometimes controversial,never mentions Semmelweis? Do you have in your library P. v.Gebhardt's Familiengeschichtliche Blotter, Vol. 27, 1929, whichcontains Billroth's genealogy? It is not available in theLibrary of Congress or Natl. Library of Medicine in Washington.Many thanks!SincerelyKarel B. Absolon, M.D.KBA:bcEnc: