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22 January 1911
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Dr. Jones,
Had I known that your birthday coincidates1 with that of the new year I would have sent you a special greeting for the memorable day. I find you are very young and have done a great deal in your short life. I was not so far advanced in 1888. So you need not hurry in such a restless way, there is plenty of time before you.
Your Hamlet [is]2 was nearly finished by the printer when your letter arrived, so you will have to complain of two ommissions, but your note could still be added. I expect the title page in a few days and I want your decision whether to put Professor before your name or not. If you do not wire to the contrary (a single word), I will have called you “Professor”.— There is no correlate to your “eld” in German. I mean to say “des Alters”3 instead. You must not hustle for the Nightmare. It is time when you can send it in the course of this year. The programm of the Schriften is pretty rich. After your Hamlet there is enrolled an essay by a Zürich juridical student Storfer4 on Parricide, next comes Abraham, Segantini, Rank's Lohengrin is to follow and so on.5 I cannot claim more than 4 or 5 volumes in a year at least at the moment. When the nightmare exceeds the volume of the hitherto published numbers, perhaps Deuticke will consent to give a double one or he may condescend to publish it separately.6
As for your work and the invitations to medical meetings I dare say you are the best judge upon the second point, I only want you [to] remark to