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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
11.10.1925
Dear Dr Pfister,
Soon after letting you know about my plan for A.B.1 a reaction set in. I began feeling sorry for the poor lad, I had a change of heart, perhaps I had recovered from a mood of timidity. In short, I sent you a telegram asking you to do nothing yet, and decided to take the slower path, that is, to write directly to his parents. I was very frank with them, and of my three reasons for thinking of giving up the patient told them at any rate two: my opinion that he was in need of treatment that might last for years and that I might not live to finish it, and my fear that his condition might take a