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27 October 1913
69 Portland Court, London
Dear Professor Freud,
Loe has commissioned me to tell you that she has again postponed her departure, and will not be in Vienna until about November the 18th, also to express her regret that she is unable to write herself.
The flat is now practically finished in spite of all delays, and her only excuse is that she wants some free time to herself, to shop in London, to rest, etc.. No doubt there is a mixture of motives, desire to plague me, which she is very successful at, hatred of Lina, which is very strong, but I think the chief one is resistance against going on with the analysis. Yesterday she could not recall the street of the Pension, Ebendorferstr., and thought only of Rotenturmstr.,1 which might be called a männliche Protest.2 She is physically fairly well, and rarely takes morphia except at the periods. She expresses to everyone a total disbelief in ψα a, has the strongest resistance to it, and is irritated by meeting even the most indirect association to it. I am full of concern for her future happiness, especially in reference to marriage, and am afraid you will not have an easy task to do much with her.
Herbert Jones is behaving splendidly, as usual, and is having to face much opposition from his family. McCurdy also, who is strongly homosexual, is doing all he can to prevent the marriage, from motives of jealousy both of Loe and of Herbert, and has composed several letters to you asking that you use your influence against it, though I don't think he has been foolish enough actually to send any of them. He has not written to me at all, being gravely shocked at the revelations Herbert has made to him of my character.