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18 March 1913
321 Jarvis St., Toronto
Dear Professor Freud,
I am very grateful for your welcome letters. They were both singularly well-timed. The first one you wrote not on hearing from me from London, but after waiting a week or two to observe my wife, which was just what I wanted. And yet you didn't wait to get my regular Toronto address, but sent it earlier so that I should be relieved at my most anxious time. This was very considerate of you. Now this morning comes the second one, with the good news about Lina, at a moment when I was anxiously awaiting my wife's first letter, which cannot arrive for another week.
About my own attitude in the matter I have no more to say, for I fully described it in my last letter and you evidently quite understand it.
As to my wife I was very gratified to hear your good reports, though I shall not be happy so long as any morphia remains; perhaps it will have disappeared by the time you get this. I am in complete agreement with your attitude of making her interests not only the first consideration, but the only one, to the exclusion of all else. I know that your code would allow you to do nothing else, and I would wish it in any case. I must take