From'Sils we are going via Vienna to Budapest for a week, to visit 
Elisabeth's sister and brother-in-law; £T nd in that connection I should 
like to ask you a favor if it is not too)much of an imposition. The 
pleasantest way of going from Vienna tp Budapest is on the Danube by 
hydrofoil; and there is one, leavings Vienna around 2 or 3 p.m. every 
day, which arrives in Budapest andund 7 p.m. No travel agent around here 
is able to make a reservationr/yet I am told that in Vienna that can 
easily be done by phoning the Hungarian travel agency (IBUSZ) in the 
Karntnerstrasse and mailing them a check in Austrian Schillings. 
If it really is that simple and not too much of an imposition, would you 
do us the favor of buying us two tickets for the hydrofoil that leaves 
Vienna for Budapest on the afternoon of Thursday, August 4? But if it 
is too much trouble, please let me know and I shall figure out some 
other arrangemervtSuTY 
I hope you continue to be in good health and we are still hoping to 
have a chance of seeing you this coming summer. Elisabeth is sending 
you her best regards and I am sending mine. 
Yours ever. 
P.S. Since writing the above, I learned from a friend that I can 
deal myself with the whole problem of the hydrofoil tickets by 
writing directly to the Vienna office of the IBUSZ. Accordingly, 
I am doing that, so please forget about the crossed out passage above.