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Hotel-Pension Noordzee, Noordwijk aan Zee,1 14 August 1910
Dear] friend,
Your letter has shamed me and restored my good humour. You are probably right in saying that we can't really expect to control the course of events by deliberate effort, but must observe with interest how they are shaped by the dark powers. We have let ourselves in for something bigger than ourselves. That calls for modesty.
I hear from Ferenczi that the Jahrbuch makes a very good impression; I haven't managed to get a copy yet. You haven't answered my question—whether I should do a preface for the new edition of the Collected Papers. I don't much feel like it. Jones2 was here for two and a half days, he made an excellent personal impression; he seems much more secure. He represented only one of his stories as a personal experience, and then my boys told me it was an old anecdote. He had already left when I received your request to ask him about your letter.
The details of our September trip are still uncertain because we have thus far been unable to obtain passage on the ship leaving Antwerp on the 29th. In any event I have made a note of the fact that you will be home in September and will write to you often. How wonderful it would be to see the company from the Washington (with the exception of Stern3) reunited on the Palatine!