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Vienna, December 26, 1911
Dear friend,
Perhaps you are surprised that, especially under these conditions, I don't write more, and more often. But that is intentional; I have no more to say, perhaps I have said more than was justified, and I don't want to spoil your future completely. So I will congratulate you wholeheartedly when you let me know that the time has come.
There is one good thing about your foreseeable decision which I cannot dispute. You will remain in contact with Frau G., whom you otherwise would have lost.
I ask you to thank Frau G. very much—the letter does have to go through your hands—for her second letter, and to ask her pardon for everything gray and black that I thought I had to say to her, and to give her very special thanks for the reception that she gave to Ernst. I am again obliged to you for the same reason. The boy enjoyed it very much.
These days I have been writing without the proper mood: On Types of Onset of Neurosis (Zentralblatt),1 On the Universal Tendency to Debasement, etc. (Jahrbuch).2
Very cordially,
Freud