Letter from Sigmund Freud to Sándor Ferenczi, January 11, 1928

Anna Freud

Wien Ix., Berggasse 191

Vienna, January 11, 1928

Dear Doctor!

I just received a letter from Eitingon and one from Jones, in which both write about the meeting of the Committee planned for Easter. You have probably also just received letters about it.

I would be very much in favor of the meeting, for I think it is more than necessary if the Congress2 is to go anywhere near peacefully, but I have no intention of traveling as far as Paris,3 and I hope you don't either. Paris for two days is so far and expensive for the both of us that one can really hardly expect it of us. Rather, I find that Jones could impose more distance upon himself because this time he won't have a long trip to the location of the Congress. Do you think that with [our] forces united, we can draw the Westerners somewhat closer to the East?

I haven't wished you well for the New Year yet, but I am doing it now after the fact, and hope that it is still valid.

Yours,

Anna