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1 April 1925
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
Looking at the 7 volumes on my shelf—three more to be expected—I feel amazed what a big lot I have written during my short life.1 I cannot find out where the utterance you quote may be sought.2 Nor is it necessary you should attend to it. It must belong to the period preceding Totem and Taboo and has since lost its importance.
I feel rather tired by 6 months of strenuous work or what appears to me as such in my present condition. The concomitant treatment for my plate—never to be finished it seems—is for something in the effect.
Cordially yours
Freud
Freud's collected works, Gesammelte Schriften (G.S.), began to appear in 1924.
Appended to Jones's typewritten Rundbrief of 16 March 1925 is a handwritten note inquiring where Freud made the remark that “the father's place in the family signified der bedeutsamste Fortschritt in der Kulturentwicklung [the most important progress in cultural development].” In Jones (1925a) this passage is quoted without a citation to Freud's writings; see Jones (1951, 2:173).