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18 February 1919
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I too enjoy our correspondence sincerely after so long a break of intercourse. Your last letter touched so many points of interest, so I am at a loss where to begin with.
As for good old Putnam I had acted exactly as your letter proposed. Nr. 2 will contain a short notice of his decease now rectified by your giving
the date, and promise a full article on his life and merits accompanied by his photo, already reproduced by our care. You are the fittest man to do the article.1 Dont forget to mention how he resisted Adler's temptings.
As regards your promise: plenty of food and of money in a short time, I will try to believe you, as all your prophesies during this war-time have become true. But it strikes me, that you did not add in clear language, where that plentiness should be, with ourselves or in England.
My health is all but perfect, I am growing an old man and am prepared to die a poor man; Martin's captivity is pressing hard on my spirits. Dont you know anyone who is travelling to Genova, where he is detained in San Benigno inferiore?
I derived great pleasure from the perusal of your new papers in that second edition.
Sachs is busy with the “Symbolism”, the first half of which I received yesterday by a special messenger, the “anal traits” (to appear in No. 2)2 have been revised in the proofs this day and the paper on war-shock is remitted to the translator, as a highly valuable [ed]3 addition to the “Discussion über Kriegsneurosen”, which will be given out as the first publication of the new “Inter. ψα Verlag”.4 I took the responsibility to decide in this way as we have no time to wait for the return of letters. It is clear and clever and may well have merited its success in England. The first part, the theory of “Ichkonflict” is congruous with my utterances on this matter at the last meeting of the ψα Vereinigung.5 Later on, it seems you are losing the contact with the item of the “Traumatische Neurose”, and wh