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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
27.12.1919
Dear Dr Pfister,
Your first utterance since leaving here again betrays the active philanthropist. I have no authority to thank you, but I can say that it is very fine. Because of the holidays I cannot pass on the matter to Wagner1 till tomorrow. What do you say to an administration that shrieks to the outside world for aid and then does not admit it when it comes?
Your son, provided that he has inherited anything at all from his father, will be very welcome. Rank, with all his treasures and novelties, is expected here on the thirtieth. Then we shall set about getting your book ready for the press; Hitschmann's Gottfried Keller is already out.
We shall have an abundance of articles from which to select for the next few numbers of the journal and Imago. Among them is a particularly interesting paper by Muralt2 which, in spite of certain difficulties, we do not want to leave out. What do you think he would say to a detailed criticism of his paper? If he is willing to accept this, and has retained a copy with similarly numbered pages, I should like to try it. He is in the best possible state of defection from Jung, but he obviously read Jung and Jung only before reading me, with the result that he ascribes to him a great deal