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11 January 1910
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Dr. Jones,
The post from America brought so much good news today that I shall no longer postpone replying to your letter of 18 December. Together with Putnam's paper in Morton Prince's journal,1 and a letter from Brill, came a very cheerful letter from St[anley] Hall, with the account of how he and Putnam dealt with Boris Sidis. Things seem to be progressing well after all, and it pleases me that your prophecies of doom do not come true.
I am even more pleased by the personal content of your letter. Do not believe that I am likely to underestimate a man of your capacity for work and intelligence, or that I would give him up easily. You have had your period of vacillation in your own way and expressed your resistance in a particular manner, but each of us had such a phase, and your elegantly phrased and honest letter puts everything right again and gives me the best