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4 October 1920
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
By the time this letter reaches you, you may have become already a father or may dwell on the very top of expectation to be so. It is one of the queerest and most exalted situations in life, the beginning of infinite happiness and endless cares. May it prove a blessing to you and your dear wife.
I have come back to Vienna on the last of Sept. at nighttime, having separated from Anna at Osnabrück and passed a day at Berlin to see my widow sister.1 I was received by an overpowering storm of letters, duties and patients, my hours are all of them taken and I feel pretty tired after the first day's work. Yesterday coming back from a 31 km ride to Tulln (on the Danube) by auto I fixed with Rank and Sachs the contents of our first Rundschreiben (circular letter) to the Comittee which is to be sent off every Tuesday.2 I am eager to learn how this institution will work, I expect it to prove very useful.
I feel very proud of the Congress and as I proclaimed in my improvisation highly relieved by the conviction, that men like you, Ferenczi, Abraham, Rank, etc. are apt and ready to supplant me. The remainder of my time and powers I will have to devote to the duty of providing for my family, that is to say to making money, but if scientific interest, which just now is asleep with me, gets aroused in the course of time I may still be able to bring some new contribution to our unfinished work. Scientific interchange among the members of the Comittee seems a highly important task for the future; [most] too much of our relations [have]3 has been taken up by business interests in these last months.
I have written to Brill the day after my return laughing at his combinations and asking him to send the money back. Will my letter impress him more than yours? The centre of our activity has now shifted to the English affairs and we hope you will behave cautiously and lead us out of the stress we find ourselves in at the moment. We want m