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24 February 1912
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
My dear Jones,
I have been very much interested by your letter of Jan. 20th but I had to wait for the next one which happily took off a load from my soul. Now I am very glad that you know how fond I am of you and how proud of the high mental powers you have put into the service of ΨA. I remember the first time when I got aware of this my attitude towards you, it was a bad one; when you left Worcester after a time of dark inconsistencies from your side and I had to face the idea that you were going away to become a stranger to us. Then I felt it ought not to be so and I could not show it otherwise than by accompanying you to the train and shaking hands before you went away. May be you understood me, in any case that feeling has proved true ever since and you have come out splendid at last.
Now let us converse on objective matters. As regards your nightmare I confess I could not justify my impression now, since your manuscript is a long while in the hands of Sachs and his clever wife, who are doing also the translation of your “Salt” and for this reason have been lazy in making up the “nightmare”.1 But if you wish I will give you my notes and objections after I get the translation.
Answers to the many topics you touch upon in your letter, would be stale at this time, except as far as M.—Beauchant is concerned the intelligent Frenchman, who is corresponding with me since 3/4 of a year, and whose trace you will have found in the Zentralblatt since.