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15 April 1910
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Dr. Jones,
Your letters prove a continuous source of satisfaction to me, I wonder indeed at your activity, at the size of your erudition and at the recent sincerity of your style. I am happy I did not listen to the internal voices hinting at giving you up when the odds were against you, and now I trust we will walk1 and work a good bit together.
You must not expect too much of Leonardo, who will come out in the next month, neither the secret of the Vierge aux rochers nor the solution of the Monna Lisa puzzle; keep your hopes on a lower level, so it is likely to please you more. Many thanks for the page from Pater, I knew it and had quoted some lines out of the fine passage.2 I think L. was “bimanual”, but that is about the same thing as left-handed. I have not inquired further into his handwriting, because I avoided by purpose all biological view restraining myself to the discussion of the psychological ones.
As for Harts paper I found it the best on the damned topic of the Unconscious I had read in the last years and enormously superior to Morton Prince's trash. It is a merit to have driven him into this line of work. As for Pearson and Clifford, both of whom I only know by name I have formed the intention to get better acquainted with them, but I have to postpone the execution of this wish until summer, my receptivity being now strained to the utmost by 11 cases of neuroses so that I must react by productive work in order to keep up my equilibrium.
Your essay on the “Mahr” I gladly accept for the Schriften next to Leonardo.3 I have been promissed Pftster on the Count of Zinzendorf and Max Graf (the father of Hans, our little hero) on Rich Wagner and his mother.4 Whoever arrives first will go to the press before the others.
As regards your behaviour with Prof. Warren I feel sure you ought not to have acted otherwise and hope you will continue the same policy against any similar temptations. The Worcester Lectures are ready for