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11 August 1912
Karlsbad
My dear Jones,
I am glad to learn that the taste for romance is not restricted to my own phantastic self. I may drop a word on the matter to Ferenczi when I see him but in the whole I intend to leave it to you, procuring stuff for private entertainment when in London.
I hav[e] learned lately that human plans are unreliable. You remember my youngest girl, your wife met her too. I intended to send her with aunt to pass some months of the next winter in Italy to make up for the study of last year and to have some nice sights in young years. All dispositions were made, when my other girl—Sophie—came back from Hamburg as the bride of a young man she had met there among our relatives. She is to marry in next spring, aunt will not be absent during the preparations and so Italy has to be given up.1 But let us suppose that we are passing through a phase of history where nothing extraordinary comes to happen. If so, I expect firmly to meet you in London 10th of Sept. and beg you to take up lodgings as you propose to do. At least for Ferenczi and me.
As for Brill I am still waiting for his answer. Rank I have invited today to join us at London and hope you will be glad to see him too. As he is about to pass his examination I am not sure which side will come out victoriously in the conflict aroused by my invitation.2
You may write me best under my Vienna adress as long as you have not got details about my September sojourns.
With best love to your wife and yourself
your affectionate
Freud
Sophie Freud (1893-1920) married Max Halberstadt (1882-1940) of Hamburg in January 1913. Freud had three daughters: his youngest was Anna (1895-1982); his eldest was Mathilde (1887-1978). The elaborate family tree at the beginning of Clark (1980) is very useful. The aunt referred to is Minna Bernays, who lived in the Freud household.