PROF. D^R. FREUD

WIEN, IX., BERGGASSE 19.

May 28^th 1919

Dear Jones

If you press me to inform you, where and when we 
shall meet this summer or autumn, whether 
an ordinary congress should be held or a 
meeting of the comité instead, I cannot but infer 
that you know nothing of the conditions we 
live in and get no light on Austria by your 
papers. Now believe m I have no idea 
where and when traveling will become
possible for me and no choice where to go 
for a summer recreation. If may even be 
I will be glad to stay at home. It all depends 
on the state of Europe in general and of this
neglected unhappy corner in particular, on the 
xxgingn of peace, on the improvement of our 
money, the opening of the border etc and 
there is a great probability things will 
not be better two months hence than they 
are now. Add to this that my wife is abed 
a strong Grippe, overcame a pneumonia 
but shows no good tendency to recover strength
and has this very day begun to fever afresh, 
it is not yet known why, but I hope it may 
not turn out very serious. As for the other 
town Bp, Ferenczi and Freud, indispensable 
to our meeting, are absolutely cut off for 
the moment, no prophesy can reveal; what 
may be their destiny and degree of 
freedom in the next weeks. As regards 
the latter, unknown you. I have reason 
to fear that you will never be able 
to make his acquaintance, his life is 
endangered by a bad recurring growth 
(he is 40 years old!), and it will be a hard

blow to all of us, to the movement and to me per-
sonally, if we lose him. Rank is fighting like 
a lion for the fonds, freud created for ΨA, 
it is still in the grips of the Hung, Government 
and we could not get it out till now. 

I can’t remember a time of my life when 
my horizon was so thickly veiled by dark 
clouds, or if so I was younger then and not 
vexed infested by the ailments of beginning old age.
I know you had a ba time and bitter 
experiences yourself and feel extremely sorry. I 
have nothing better to report and no consolation 
to offer. When we meet, as I trust we shall 
in this year, you will find I am still 
unshaken and up to every emergency, but 
it is so only in sentiment, my judgment is on 
the side of pessimism.

As regards your plans on the English-American 
Journal you are free to act as you think it 
best and sure to get all possible support 
to th your authority the chairmen of the 
societies can give you. By writing, if a meeting 
proves impossible.

I have not stopped production, or at the 
worst for some weeks only. I hope these
inquiries will interest you greatly. Nr. 1 
and 2 of the new „Int. ψα Bibliothek 
(Kriegsneurosen and Ferenci’s book on Hy) 
have come out at last. We are living 
through a bad time, but science is a mighty 
power to stiffen one’s neck.

Take my best love and send 
your better news to your old friend 
Freud