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12 April 1921
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I know how severely you work and it is a pity I think that you spend your scarce and precious time on my translations as you did for the “Jenseits”. I did not know you were doing it yourself. The same feeling applies to your cares on my “Lectures” and the Collected Edition, things quite out of time and not important enough to interfere with your own scientific work. I am glad you take a holiday sometimes but the general impression is, you bear a too heavy burden and should leave minor things to other people. We are looking for translators here, I besides have made up my mind to employ the Americans coming here in the same way as Strachey, there are four of them noted down for Oktober (Polon, Oberndorf, Kardiner and Blumgart).1 Yet the first attempt made with M. Meyer failed and Frink