6 April 1926
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Dear Jones,

Donna de Ortuzar, a Chilean adventuress of noble birth, is the wife of Dr. Gilchrist, whom, as I told you, I sent away after three weeks.1 They are a bad lot, but perhaps one should recall Macaulay's comment about the ten thousand pickpockets in the London of his day.

I thank you for your letter giving your reasons and corrections. You have been very much on my mind lately because, together with Anna, I translated your obituary notice while in the sanatorium, which I left the day before yesterday. However, we found it impossible to finish the whole job in the short time before Storfer needed it, and therefore called on Reik for help; he was in the same sanatorium with his wife, who has fallen ill again. He has very willingly taken over the middle part—the most difficult, in fact—while the beginning and end will come from us. I only regret that