Budapest, March 24, 1924

Dear Professor,

I would not like for this day, on which I came into possession of your letter, to pass without my responding to you. Perhaps the swiftness of my reply will come at the expense of mature reflection—but: I was in analysis with you twice—and was also accustomed for years afterward to make known my thoughts to you, without much contemplation, as free associations, so to speak. So I am only returning to the old practice, which was unpleasantly interrupted by the more formal Rundbriefe. Honesty is also