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356A
Berlin-Grünewald
3 June 1919
Dear Professor,
Transport between Berlin and Vienna is still very slow and irregular. A direct train runs only twice a week. We have almost gone back to the time of the mail-coach. I hope with all my heart that in the time since you sent me your last letter your wife's condition has improved completely. We too have not quite finished with the influenza. If you cannot manage to give me some information in the near future about the course of the illness, you might perhaps entrust it to Rank, who often needs to write to me in any case! Your eldest son's imprisonment is probably almost at an end. The latest news gives us hope for an agreement in the course of this month after all.
5 June. Two very full days have prevented me from continuing my letter. Apart from work in the practice, which now fills the whole of my day, I have tried almost daily during the last five months to find a permanent home. The last two days were—besides work—completely filled with negotiations on this subject. At last we found a very suitable flat for 1 October, so we must make do with our temporary lodgings for another four months. Incidentally, these last months have proved that patients do not mind coming out as far as the Grünewald colony, and I have now rented a place very near our present refuge.
Meanwhile, the issue on war neuroses has arrived. Jones's contribution1 interests me particularly, but I have not been able to read it yet.
As you know, among my patients there is also Dr S. He is definitely making progress. I may soon be able to give a final favourable report on him. I do not know whether I mentioned in my last letter that I have taken on the analysis of a paranoia querulans. It is progressing very successfully. The patient has lost interest in those things about which he was querulously complaining, has utterly changed, and is making a surprising switch-over from man to woman. He is a complete and brilliant confirmation of the theories you develop in