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12 October 1920
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
So you have become a father nearly at the same time as a president.1 You are now on the heights of life and with a little σωφρoσvvη2 will never slip down. Give my best wishes to your wife who I am sure behaved bravely and write in time what the baby's weight is and name will be. If you take a deeper interest in the newcomers first action, let me tell you that my eldest daughter exactly did the same thing when first brought to light. Yet I do not remember she was addicted to thumbsucking later on to any remarkable degree.
I got the news that you transferred our account from Lippmann to Lissa & Kann and thank you for it. L.[issa] & K.[ann] wrote me since that you had sent them F 25, I wonder if this sum had anything to do with me.
Your first circulating letter was highly interesting for both of us.3 As you will learn by our next, the transactions with the man Kola are progressing in a very favourable manner.4 May be we will soon have our cares behind us and big chances of activity before us. But Rank is rather cool and cautious than enthusiastic in the matter and I dont blame him for it.
I have taken Mr. Strachey at one guinea the hour, do not regret it but for his speech being so indistinct and strange to my ear, that he is a torture to my attention.
The fool Daly is much more reasonable than before. As for Rickman I think your judgment is too severe. His peculiarities are not beyond the measure of any young man getting aware and not yet sure of his powers. He is not conceited and full of passion. I rather like him.
I am now entering into transactions about treatment with another man you sent to me, one Dr. Young5 of the British Embassy here, a case of erythrophobia etc. Tough cases, but not without good chance.
I have cured my stomach in Vienna, my cold is going its way.
My friend Prof. Pribram tells me I have been expected at Cambridge on Sept. 27th. But I never got a word of invitation as you know.6 I once had a conver