Letter from Sándor Ferenczi to Sigmund Freud, March 6, 1927

Hotel St. Andrew
Broadway at 72nd Street
New York
March 6, 1927

Dear Professor,

I thank you kindly for the detailed news. I am very pleased about its favorable content.

You ask how I am. Now—at the moment I feel very exhausted—but I keep my tiredness a secret. Only my wife suffers under my growing displeasure and impatience. The state of my bodily health is variable. I long for absolute rest. Strong overwork is evidently partly responsible for my mood of dissatisfaction, which the great outward successes that I reported also can't mollify. Please tell only Fräulein Anna about this perhaps only transitory feeling of tiredness, no one else. (The material result will be approximately double that which I normally save in Budapest.)

Brill seems to be very annoyed about my being here. But I guard against giving him grounds for being personally insulted. His behavior is, to be sure, downright unfriendly.

In expectation of news from you.

Yours,

Ferenczi

P.S. Enclosed a lecture written in English.1 If you accept it for the Zeitschrift, then Radó will have to have it translated. Then the English original can be sent on to London (Jones).