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Vienna, March 3, 1910
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
In consequence of an attack of writing frenzy which has advanced Leonardo to page thirty, I have postponed thanking you for the interesting mailings. I am now freer, work and earn less, and would like to be finished with Leonardo by the time of the Congress.
The antiquities are meager but still worth the price. The bronze receptacle was not included, the glass beads are beautiful, the lamps, to be sure, overpriced at 1 crown each, but it doesn't matter if it gives the old guy pleasure. I naturally can't take the belts without seeing them; he would have to send them along for examination.
Excuse me if I give second place to the more valuable scientific mailings. I am happy to see that you are now doing things exactly the way I did at the time, only I wasn't able to show my notes, with their intimations and confusions, to anyone. You seem only to have found the same things with your homosexuals as Sadger and I did with ours. It would be funny if that were already the rule. The theories of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee1 are naturally tendentious deliria.—I didn't have a moment's doubt that Silberer's observations2 permit the same continuation as every dream. If I say little about your communications, partly on purpose in order not to disturb you, that shouldn't keep you from sending me more.
The American mail has again brought pleasant things: a complete commitment to our teachings from Putnam in his second article3: in it he gives the three of us the following beautiful characterization from the heart of a Puritan: … but I see the volume has already been lent out, and I can't write out the quote for you! Then a magnificently turned-out paper on Hamlet by Jones,4 who has now happily overcome his obstacles and, it seems to me, will soon win precedence over Brill thanks to his multifacetedness and dexterity. It was good that we didn't sacrifice him back then.5
Jung has again emerged from his personal perplexities, and