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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
10.5.1925
Dear Dr Pfister,
You were one of the few who sent personal congratulations in spite of the distance. In return, after an incubation period
of a few days, you will be getting a permanent place among the like-minded in my room.1
Meanwhile I have met your protégé's parents. They seem very willing to make sacrifices, which generally points to a bad prognosis. I could promise them nothing definite, but could only indicate my general willingness. Perhaps I may be able to take the lad on September 1 instead of October 1. It is my strong wish that he should remain with you until then. His father is, I think, very tractable, but his mother seems more restless and more ready to undertake plans of her own.
We shall probably have further dealings over him.
With cordial greetings,
Yours,
Freud