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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
25 March 1914
Dear Friend,
Enclosed Jones's letter. It is quite remarkable how each one of us in turn is seized with the impulse to kill, so that the others have to restrain him. I suspect that Jones himself will produce the next plan. The role of co-operation in the Committee is however, very well illustrated by this! We shall discuss all this. The critical issue of the has now appeared and will perhaps spare us many a decision.
You do not mention when you are going on your well-earned little journey. The last few times I was in Venice, I stayed in the Britannia, very good, always very full. Book a long time in advance! Danieli is said to be very good too. At Easter everything is full up now.
Many thanks for the trouble you took over Reik, which seems to have been successful. Now we have to wait and see whether he will not ruin what he has all over again. He is suffering the recoil of the violent death-wish against a tyrannical father-in-law to be!
Since finishing the Narcissism, I have not been having a good time. A great deal of headache, intestinal troubles, and already an idea for a new work, which is an added difficulty in the summer because it precludes staying at a hotel and requires a quiet place where one can work. So far our summer is utterly sphinx-like.
According to the news from Hamburg the mother is very well, the little boy still very “shabby”, as we say. He has not yet quite grasped the idea of drinking and putting on weight. Today he is two weeks old.
I send my cordial greetings to you and to your dear wife,
your faithfully devoted