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Vienna, 8.2.1920
Dear Colleague,
I shall have your novel returned in the next few days by our publishing house. But you are wrong: I liked it. In parts I was most amused. The characters of old English humourists are well-drawn. In one respect it seems to us to resemble that model of all humorous novels, Don Quixote. The hero turns in the author's hands into something more serious than was originally
planned. I admired your talent for graphic description, which is unusual, particularly in the railway scenes.
Now I do believe with you that the book will not be to everybody's taste. So many clever, frank, and playful ideas are not easy to digest. And yet you should try and have it published. Worse products have been published in the name of analysis.
Contributions of yours to Imago will always be welcome. At the moment, we have not got any paper but we are trying to get some.
Yours sincerely Freud