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100F
Berggasse 19
20 January 1911
Dear Friend,
A ridiculously hectic period, complicated by an accident of my eldest, who broke a thigh skiing (not a complicated fracture, fortunately taking a normal course),1 has meant that the reply to your letter has had to be put off for such a long time. I scarcely know now with what I should catch up.
I believe I know Frl. Rosenthal from a brief correspondence with her. If you send me the work, I will read it at once and then make a decision about it. Your Segantini is most welcome. Its position is as follows: The translation of Jones's Hamlet is to appear very soon, followed two months later by a paper on parricide by a Zurich doctor of laws, and then comes your Segantini's turn. I cannot expect Deuticke to accept more than five or six volumes a year.
Dr Bjerre was in Vienna for a week and at first made things difficult for me by his taciturnity and stiffness, but finally I worked my way through to discovering his serious personality and good mind. I advised him to join the Berlin group as a member, and I hope he will do so. Scandinavia is, after all, your natural hinterland.
Have I already told you that I spent Christmas in Munich with Bleuler and then with Jung? No, I certainly have not, my brain is clearly weakening. With Bl. things went well, I was so tired that I acted quite naturally, and that worked. We parted as friends, and he has since joined the Z.[urich] Society. So the schism there has been healed. With Jung I discussed the Congress. As a result I think the date will be changed to the end of September, because of the Americans; and perhaps it really will take place in Lugano. The most important event of the moment, Bl.'s apologia,2 is already in your hands. The would very much like to publish something by you. Juliusburger has done a