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61F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
17 January 1909
Dear Colleague,
I am delighted to have been wrong, and I am always willing to be wrong if it can be so to such advantage. But you will find that I tend to acquire prejudices that turn out to be very resistant to opportunities for shaking them.
I gladly answer your questions. There is to be no congress this year, but it will take place again next year, to make it easier for our gallant Americans to attend. Also, the accumulation of material worth communicating can be only desirable. Jones is in Toronto, Canada, 35 Chicora Avenue, from where he writes very interesting, sarcastic letters in which his countrymen come off badly. He thinks we shall come to grief there on Anglican prudery.
You will certainly have read Strohmayer's good and certainly effective paper,1 which is very pleasing. I was also pleased to see from the proofs of the Jahrbuch that Jung has given your contribution first place after the analysis of little Hans.
No. 5,2 with Rank's work, is already at the printer's. During the period when you were missing, I received an invitation to deliver four to six lectures at the twentieth (!) anniversary celebrations at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in the first week of July, and they offered to pay my fare. I had to decline, as I am not rich enough to be able to sacrifice three weeks' earnings in Vienna. But I was sorry, and at least one can talk about the invitation here in Europe.3
The news of your practice is excellent. Hirschfeld is certainly an agreeable colleague because of his well-sublimated homosexuality. Perhaps you will gradually be able to convince him of the incorrectness of