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

10 August 1913
Mbad [Marienbad]

My dear Jones,

I cannot say how much gratified I have been by your report on the Congress and by your defeating Janet in the eyes of your countrymen. The interest of ΨA, and of your person in England is identical, now I trust you will “schmieden das Eisen solange es warm ist”.1

“Fair play” is what we want and likely it may be got better in England than anywhere else.—

Brill will not come over. He writes, it is his family, wife and daughter, who want his presence this year. He has been appointed chief of the clinic of Psychiatry at the Columbia University, and so he is settled and independent at last.

I promised Loe a bad time in London which I want to squeeze out of her the last and deepest motives of her disorders. I hope matters with Herbert will not become so extricate [intricate] this summer as to defy clearing in autumn. Give her my very best regards and please tell her I knew difficulties were coming up when she wrote she could not finish the letter to me. There is something necessary and unavoidable in it; so she should not lose temper or courage and keep above the situation.

I am leaving Mbad tomorrow for S. Martino di Castrozza, Hotel des Alpes. We had a bad time here, it was too cold and wet. I can scarcely write from rheumatism in my right arm. Perhaps we are to have more freezing in the mountains.

Go on in giving me your good news during these four weeks. You make me feel strong and hopeful.

Sincerely yours

Freud