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19 April 1914
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
Thanks for your letter. I know you will be most anxious to get news about Loe. She is improving steadily and going down in morphia. What you construe about her “hatred” against you is true but not all the truth. I will communicate the essentials of the case to you when treatment is finished. I hope you realize that in spite of that “hatred” you have no truer friend than her, she is always behaving in a glorious way in real matters. So much I may betray that the motive of the aversion against you is identical with that of the attachment. The Jones family is behaving in a very unkind and coarse manner against her. Too much has been spoken on intimate accidents of your common life, it will be better to show less frankness to strangers henceforth.
I agree with your proposal to meet before the Congress,1 yet I would prefer a term nearer to the date of it. I could not easily go away in May. You will hear more on this point.
I felt pretty tired and unhealthy these last weeks and think I will try to do—nothing at all for some time. Brioni was a splendid enjoyment but too short for recovery; it served only to bring out what was latent of fatigue and weariness.2
I was surprised that you too had got my etching. I have heard of the most differing judgments it has met. Ferenczi praised it highly, Abraham took the same position as you. I consider it masterly, though it makes me appear older than I may look.
Two letters (Pfister and Brill) will reach you which I did send into circulation among the C[ommittee]. It is all I have learned about the doings in Zürich.