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8 June 1913
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
My dear Jones,
I am glad you are trying to find some good points in the new situation and I'm sure they may be found. Ferenczi is strong and reliable and you may win him for life. You had a big share in my private thoughts all this year over, you know. I am indeed of opinion you have lost your wife more completely than you realise. She is a treasure of a woman, but of deep-going abnormality and I am not without misgivings about her physical health and her fate, when this business with Jones II comes to an unfavourable end, as might easily be. You see how a clever and perspicuous man can be deceived about his next ones. All the time she was revolting against you, and even now she cannot bring it out in a manner appropriate for analysis.
You will recover soon I am sure and find a compensation in the work awaiting for you and in the interest of your sincerely attached friends. As for her we will watch over her, if life does not meet her passionate wishes and you will keep up the friendship resulting from so long a partnership in life.
I could not help observing that there is some constraint between ourselves due to my role in her analysis, I felt the effect in your getting so tired on our Cobenzl trip,1 when I grew fresher with the advancing hour. It will pass away I have no doubt when you see my part more clearly. I had to work against my own interest. Your house in London, had the treatment come to another result, would have become a regular Absteiggquartier [temporary accommodation] for me and so have fulfilled one of my earliest wish-fancies.
Rank is allright. I had to tremble at the idea of his getting disabled for