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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich,
Dear Professor Freud, 31 January 19111
Many thanks for all the news in your last letter. — As I am laid low with influenza, this will be only a soulless typed letter.2 Stekel's aphorisms are atrocious. A blessing they were suppressed — The real reason for my writing to you in haste and so disjointedly, and sending the letter by a third hand, is to introduce a friend from my student days at Basel University, a surgeon. He is an amiable fellow with a laudable if limited interest in psychoanalysis. He won't make a nuisance of himself in any way, only wants to take a modest seat in the Vienna Society and learn a thing or two. The name is Dr. Achilles Müller.3
I had no idea of the mishap that has befallen your son. In the circumstances it is a miracle that he got off so lightly. These accidents are terribly dangerous. — My wife and I send heartfelt wishes for speedy recovery.
Best regards and wishes for your own health,
Most sincerely yours, JUNG
Typewritten and signed. / Jones (II, p. 159/140) cites a letter from Freud to Ferenczi of 8 Feb. 11 to support the statement “In 1911 … Jung was paying another visit to America, which made Freud express his regret that the ‘Crown Prince’ should be so long out of his country.” But these letters do not support the likelihood of such an absence.
According to Mr. Franz Jung, his father's sister Gertrud (1884-1935), who had been a nurse at the Burghölzli 1906-8, moved to Küsnacht around 1909 to live with her mother (Emilie, née Preiswerk, 1848-1923) and worked as C. G. Jung's secretary until about 1925.
Müller (1877-1964) had a distinguished career as a surgeon and urologist in Basel. Minutes, III, report him a guest at several meetings from 22 Feb. on.