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254F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
31 October 1914
Dear Friend,
Your letter was like a refreshing breeze. We are very pleased just now about the Triple Alliance, given us anew as a result of the Turkish decision.1 Otherwise we learn the same things in the newspapers, I assume.
Your little work was welcome; a proof of my next paper for the 2 is on the way for you. I am again hard at work on the large case history, in which I let myself go at length into discussing things. I now realize that the only reason why I wrote in such concise a style in recent years was that I had so little time. (!) How shall I get the paper to you when it is finished? You will have to come to Vienna to fetch it, or I shall have to go to Berlin again if, as I hope, you stay there.
Otherwise I have very little to do, I have not been able to get more than two patients, and in the long run there are likely to be fewer rather than more.
As for Frau Hirschfeld, I am able to inform you that she is with her husband in Nassau—interned as an Englishwoman. This will not be very oppressive to her; on the contrary, she will enjoy being guarded by the state now. She, too, is, after all, a victim of British perfidy. I have noticed in general that obsessional people feel better now in wartime, we have descended to their level.