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Vienna, April 24, 1919
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
No prospect of our seeing each other so soon. [I] hope you and Frau Gizella [are] well. Today we were very worried about Toni, until a telephone conversation with the Journal brought us reassurance.1
Yesterday [there was] great jubilation about transferring the fund through the minister to your envoy here. Unfortunately, the envoy declared himself prepared to pay us only an installment of a fifth because he doesn't have enough money here. This, too, is not supposed to occur until tomorrow. The rest is more up in the air than before. I am sharing this with you so that you take the necessary steps for guaranteeing and payment with the minister. Dr. Jellinek knows about it; he was present just now at the envoy's.
The only unclouded news from us is that Ernst has earned his diploma as an engineer-architect. Otherwise each week is actually more difficult than the previous one.
In Leipzig a for the moment private analytical society has been formed, which is in contact with me.2
Cordially,
Freud
See Freud's letter to Ernst Freud, April 27, 1919: “Last week we were very worried about Dr. Freund. It was said that he had been arrested with the hostages …, but his
workers appealed for his release” (Library of Congress). As a representative of the Neue Presse Journal (see letter 774), Rank called Budapest by telephone every evening (Freud to Eitingon, June 26, 1919, Sigmund Freud Copyrights).