12 October 1920  Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Dear Jones

*IP4,0+So you have become a father nearly at the same time as a president.*FN1.AAGwenith Jones (1920‑1928).  See letter 520 for the circumstances surrounding her premature death.

+  You are now on the heights of life and with a little [sophrod(u)yne]*FN1.AA[sophrod(u)yne]  [Greek].

+ will never slip down.  Give my best wishes to your wife who I am sure behaved bravely and write in time what the baby's weight is and name will be.  If you take a deeper interest in the newcomers's first action, let me tell you that my eldest daughter exactly did the same thing when first brought to light.  Yet I do not remember she was addicted to thumb‑sucking later on to any remarkable degree.

I got the news that you transferred our account from Lippmann to Lissa & Kann and thank you for it.  Lissa & Kann wrote me since that you had sent them F 25, I wonder if this sum had anything to do with me.

Your first circulating letter was highly interesting for both of us.*FN1.AAJones's first Rundbrief was written on 7 October 1920 (Archives of The British Psycho‑Analytical Society, London; and Rank Collection, Butler Library, Columbia University, N. Y. C.).+  As you will learn by our next, the transactions with the man Kola are progressing in a very favourable manner.*FN1.AARichard Kola (b. 1872) of Vienna built a huge publishing and financial empire in the early 1920s, see Murray Hall, "Der Rikola‑Konzern," in *MDUL+Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918‑1938*MDNM+, vol. 2 (Vienna, Cologne, Graz: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., 1985, pp. 310‑357).  Kola was attempting to take over the operations of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, however, nothing came of the negotiations.

+  May be we will soon have our cares behind us and big chances of activity before us.  But Rank is rather cool and cautious than enthusiastic in the matter and I dont blame him for it.

I have taken Mr. Strachey at one guinea the hour, do not regret it but for his speech being so indistinct and strange to my ear, that he is a torture to my attention.

The fool Daly is much more reasonable than before.  As for Rickman I think your judgment is too severe.  His peculiarities are not beyond the measure of any young man getting aware and not yet sure of his powers.  He is not conceited and full of passion.  I rather like him.

I am now entering into transactions about treatment with another man you sent to me, one Dr. Young of the British Embassy here, a case of erythrophobia etc.  Tough cases, but not without good chance.

I have cured my stomach in Vienna, my cold is going its way.

My friend Prof. Pribram tells me I have been expected at Cambridge on Sept. 27th.  But I never got a word of invitation as you know. I once had a conversation with Rickman about my visit there but I dropped it hearing that my daughter could not be invited.  That was all.

Wishing you a very happy time

                          yours affectionately  Freud