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25 May 1914
69 Portland Court, London
Dear Professor Freud,
I am very happy to hear from Sachs that you are again quite well; I had not heard you had been ill. Let me hope that there will [be] no more trouble with this intestinal disorder, and that the holidays will finally put an end to it. Will you let me know what your plans are, if you have made them already. What is the date of the Leiden lecture, and will it be possible for you to come to London after that? I suppose you go to Carlsbad in July?
I quite echo to the full your wish for a talk. My repeated visits to Vienna in the past couple of years have “spoilt” me, and I find five months away from there already more than long enough; I must arrange to pay a visit twice a year. In any case I hope we shall meet before the time of the Congress, especially now that this has been postponed.
Sach's visit is drawing to a close. It has been in every way highly satisfactory. He has enjoyed it greatly, and I have enjoyed it just as much. To live under the same roof is always a good test, and it has succeeded brilliantly in this case. I appreciate his excellent character more highly than before (when I was perhaps a little influenced by Loe's dislike of him), and we have got on together splendidly. Then also there is a good report to give of his address on Swift1 to our society, which everyone praised most highly. He spoke for 21/2 hours with hardly any notes, and with entire success. There is only one mistake in English that I cannot cure him of—he obstinately confounds the genders (Starfish. Traumdeutung identification!)2