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25 September 1924
Semmering
Dear Jones,
These are the last days of my staying here. On Sept. 30th I will be back in town and see the few people I intend to take for next season. I did not answer your kind letter of Aug. 12th feeling in a peculiar mood of incertainty [uncertainty] and expectation about—you guess about what or whom.1 (By the by the promised photos of your children did not arrive.)
The final success of the Press is a matter you may be proud of, I had given up all hope of such an issue; I knew what your sacrifices were and feared they would prove a barren expense. I am particularly glad of the praise you give to your helpmates in the case of Mrs. Riviere I see I have been of some use.
What is the use of Americans, if they bring no money? They are not good for anything else. My attempt at giving them a chief in the person of Frink, which has so sadly miscarried, is the last thing I will ever do for them, had I to live the one hundred years you set down for the incorporation of Ψ A into Psychiatry. Frink I found a clear head and a fine intellect, I settled all my hope upon his person, yet his reactions during analysis were of a psychotic nature. For a week I had to engage Joe Asch as his nurse and guardian at the hotel in Vienna. He got over it; when he came back to NY one of the very first steps he took was to abuse the powers transferred to him in an unjustified attack on Brill, and when he saw he was not permitted to have free satisfaction to his infantile desires he broke down. It was the same in his relation to his new wife, on account of her hardness in money matters he did not get all the tokens of her affection, he had pressed her for.
My health is much better than I had reason to expect. It is now 10101/2 months since my last operation and no sign of a relapse. The exertions of Pichler have succeeded at last in a fargoing restorations of the two damaged functions of speaking and eating. My general condition is pretty satisfactory. Yet I am no more wh