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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
4.10.1909
Dear Man of God,
A letter from you is one of the best possible things that could be waiting for one on one's return. But do not believe that I believe everything or even a large part of the delightful things that you say to me and about me, i.e., I believe them of you but not of me. I do not deny that it does me good to hear that sort of thing, but after a while I recall my own self-knowledge and become a good deal more modest. What remains behind is the belief that you honestly mean what you say, and the pleasure given by your kind and enthusiastic nature. What I should like would be to win over more such people as yourself, Jung (one must not continue ‘and others of the same sort’), but there are not very many.
Many thanks for your news. You really do not need to handle Förster with kid gloves. I look forward to receiving your reply to him soon. Fräulein Kaiser2 is obviously of the right stuff; I wish her good fortune in her work. One of the most agreeable phantasies is that without our knowing it decent people are finding their way to our ideas and aspirations and then suddenly popping up all over the place. That is what happened in the case of Stanley Hall. Who would