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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
5.10.1919
Dear Dr Pfister,
I have to thank you for a number of letters of recent months which in the upheaval of absence on holiday I did not always answer. I have been back since September 24, and shall now again become a reliable correspondent. I have been hearing a great deal of pleasing news about you and your work from Rank and Jones. Jones left yesterday.
Ferenczi has at last got away from Budapest, and is now here. He has handed over the presidency, the duties of which he cannot discharge in these times, to Jones (until the next congress). Official arrangements are in hand.
My son Martin, having returned home from his Italian imprisonment, has now surrendered to another; he has become engaged to the girl of his choice, a Vienna lawyer's daughter.
In regard to your friendly proposition regarding the French translation of the Interpretation of Dreams or the Introductory Lectures, the reply must be that I am reserving these tasks for our international publishing house, which is now preparing for the publication of a British journal under Jones's editorship, but is only awaiting the opportunity of bringing out