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17 May 1910, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I don't know whether you are troubled as much by my failure to write as I am in the opposite case, but after this bit of malice I will confide without further ado that on the day when you last wrote I was taken with a nasty case of influenza, which took away my voice and has left me feeling wretched. I needed all my energy to keep on with my patients and none was left to write a letter with. Over the two days of Whitsun1 I was in Karlsbad with my wife and daughter. I have just come home this morning and hasten to write to you.
It is now definite that we shall arrive in Noortwiyk near Leyden on 1 August. Nothing has yet been arranged for the preceding period. I may spend two weeks in Karlsbad alone.
This morning I found a long letter from Jones in Washington waiting for me. He reports on the exciting events at the American Psycho-pathological Association2 on 2 May. By and large they were favourable to us. Since he must have written you the same thing, I won't dwell on it. As usual, Putnam seems to have done very well and Jones himself is making up for last year's ambiguities with indefatigable zeal, great skill and, I was going to say, humility. Which is most gratifying. The founding of an American branch society strikes him as difficult for the time being, or at best possible only in a formal sense. But such organizational worries are your department. I believe we too should content ourselves with a formal organization (dues and Bulletin!).