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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
14.12.1911
Dear Dr Pfister,
I have had a gloomy day myself to-day and shall cheer myself up by having a few words with you….
I have prodded the editors of Psyche (or Imago)2 not to omit the paper on krypterga.3
Who is the Messmer you mention in your letter? Surely not the venerable father of mesmerism, who spelled his name with one S fewer? You write about him as though I knew him. Is vile senility causing my memory to fail?
I find it a great nuisance that the new journal wants something from me, an introductory article to boot. I am finding the psychogenesis of religion very hard going, and with the feeble powers at my disposal I shall have a job to finish it in