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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
October 30, 1927
Dear Madam
It does not require a mediator to induce me to fulfill your wish.1 I am only afraid that I cannot offer as much as you expect. Our relationship, so close during school years, had already come to an end while we were at the university.
In the last fifty (!) years I have heard hardly anything about him. In all that time I have run into him on several occasions by chance in the street in Vienna; he may once have come to visit me in my home. On another occasion I received a letter from him asking me to analyze one of his sons who was causing him difficulties. (It must have been during the first decade of psychoanalysis.) This I declined because I was not ready for the treatment of young people and thought-rightly-that personal relations were not favorable for the psychoanalytical situation.
I am afraid I don't have any letters from him. The last memorable encounter we had may have taken place in 1883 (?) or 1884 (?). At that time he came to Vienna and invited me to lunch at the house of his brother-in-law, Victor Adler.2 I still remember that he was a vegetarian at the time, and that I got a glimpse of