2 May 1931
81 Harley Street, London

Dear Professor,

I generally send my congratulations a few days before your birthday, so as not to add to the crush on that day. I am not proposing to come in person, chiefly because my rheumatism makes me far less ‘beweglich’ [mobile] than in earlier years, when to travel to Vienna [for]1 to spend a day or two there would have been a light matter. Also you have never kept it a secret that ceremonial occasions give you no pleasure and that you much prefer to see friends at informal times; in fact I expressed the hope to Eitingon that no one would accompany him except presumably Ferenczi. We have all taken here special interest in the fact that this is your seventy-fifth birthday and our members wish me unofficially to express to you their congratulations, esteem and good wishes for health