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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
11.3.1913
Dear Dr Pfister,
My congratulations on having finished your book. I hope that in my judgment of it I shall once more see eye to eye with Jung. Keller's2 attitude does not surprise me, it corresponds to what I thought of him.
With the Hirschfeld publishing firm—if I am to judge by the proprietor's wife—things will go smoothly. A word in your ear about your translator. I know L. myself, he is a wholly inadequate, wild individual; actually he is a complete ass. Unless he has greatly altered in the meantime, I should entrust no translation to him. But there is a prospect of my finding a translator for you here with whom you should be satisfied. I suggest that you send me the galleys one by one as soon as you receive them. I shall see whether the idea is practicable and let you know as soon as possible.
I have just had to do an unwanted job, a kind of introduction to psycho-analysis for Scientia;3 I did it, not wishing to