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Vienna, October 23, 1926
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Received both of your letters, the one from the ship and the first from the city. Very pleased that you are letting us experience jointly everything that happens to you there. Let us hope that America doesn't change anything in this inclination of yours as you go along.
Don't expect any recompense from me. Little is happening with us, and I have little to relate. Jones writes that the clinic is open1 and already has much to do. In Berlin they have decided to move the birthday greeting for Groddeck to the top of no. 4 of the Zeitschrift.2 I told him by telegram that my Ego and my Id congratulate his It, and hope that it may please its inscrutable decree to allow him a long happy lease of life, whereupon he replied cordially, but quite humorlessly.3 In order not to lose complete contact with the Viennese, I have decided to invite the (extended) leadership for one evening a month, which found much applause.4 I, myself, have sometimes more, sometimes less catarrh (at present more), along with the corresponding disruptions, and am otherwise playing with my five people. There is no lack of new problems, but I am not very eager to find solutions,