Meitner would have to wait before she could get back to the transuranic research she missed so much. She wrote imploring letters to Hahn: “Perhaps you cannot fully appreciate how unhappy it makes me to realize that you always think that I am unfair and embittered, and that you also say so to other people. If you think it over, it cannot be difficult to understand what it means to me that I have none of my scientific equipment. For me that is much harder than everything else. But I am really not embittered—it is just that I see no real purpose in my life at the moment and I am very lonely.”
