Letter from Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, July 10, 1913

10 July 1913
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

My dear Jones,

Now I too want to profit from your progress in German and give up writing to you in the poorest English. There are many heartfelt things I could say in reply to your kind letter, however, I shall limit myself to the assurance that you not only set me a difficult task but also presented me with an enormous gift. You know that one cannot be with Loe for very long before one becomes truly fond of her.

She is unfortunately now also giving me cause for concern, not with respect to a nervous condition but to an organic one. As the swelling in her legs would not subside, I finally had her consult one of our younger internists, Dr. R. Kaufmann,1 whom I regard as excellent. He has diagnosed that the feverish condition in May, which Hitschmann and Fleischmann traced to urine poisoning caused by bending of a ureter, was due to, or led to, a thrombosis of a vein deep in the abdomen. He was very glad that no further mishap ensued, regards the process almost at an end, but insists that she should keep resting until the end of this month. He did not forbid