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2 April 1911, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Fate wills it that I must write to you again before your Easter flight. I am sorry to hear about Honegger. He was a fine man, intelligent, gifted, and devoted. I had been counting on him to become an invaluable help to you; I know that his loss must be a severe blow to you. Something in his makeup seems to have rebelled against adapting to the necessities of life. Do you know, I think we wear out quite a few men. Your impressions of Berlin, on the other hand, are most gratifying. I have always held that loud abuse has the least lasting effect.
I could have taken the patient you wired me about from Berlin, because I was just in the process of throwing out the Dutch woman (G——'s sister-in-law) who had become unbearable. Yesterday I received another wire: H——1 is not coming.
I am sorry to hear that Jones is planning to leave Toronto.2 We should be at a great loss without him in America. In Zürich we shall have to make a personal effort with the Americans.
And now for the last time I wish you and your dear wife luck on your little trip.
Yours cordially, FREUD
Apparently a prospective patient.
Jones remained on the faculty of the University of Toronto until 13 Nov. 1913, when he resigned (Hale, in Putnam and Psychoanalysis, p. 206), though he actually had left Toronto for England in June 1912 (Greenland, “Ernest Jones in Toronto, II,” Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, XI:6, Dec. 1966). In early 1911, however, Jones had difficulties with the University over charges of malpractice by a hysterical patient; these were cleared up, but he found Toronto “an unpleasant atmosphere for a free thinker” (Jones to Putnam, 13 and 23 Jan. and 7 Apr. 11, in Putnam and Psychoanalysis).