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Budapest, April 4, 1911
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
I joyfully accept and am already in fantasy more in sunny South Tyrol than in this Nordic city, now so chilly, where, after a few beautiful spring days it is snowing again and an icy wind is blowing.—I have not yet studied the itinerary. (Since Oli is absent I have to do it myself.) I don't think we'll meet until we are down there. When and where is naturally reserved for you to decide. I am looking forward to this vacation very much the way a child does, and I gauge from this joy how much I actually slaved away this winter.
The local “Galileo” Society (Society of Freethinking Students)1 has come to me with a request that I should ask you to give them a lecture sometime. If you consent, they will send you a formal invitation. The best thing would be for us to talk this matter out in person. Incidentally, I didn't hold out much hope to the boys; I know what a day and a trip mean to you.
I would be very pleased if Stekel did not reject your critique; what I want to write about his book will be interpreted by Stekel and Adler as an echo of your opinions, which won't prevent me from writing the critique, however.
Jones writes to me from Toronto with much conviction, so that I can only interpret his “wobbling” in such a way that he can't get along with the prudish Scots (about whom he complains a great deal).2
Tomorrow I will send you a paper—which is kept somewhat speculative and leans too heavily on the side of consciousness but is not devoid of intellect—by a local initiate, Dr. Kovács3 (former patient; music aesthete). He would like to have the work published as a volume of the “Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde.” Would you make an entirely objective judgment about this and then let me know what you think?