8 July 1913  Pension Gerö  Lipót‑körút 1O  Budapest V

Dear Prof. Freud,

I want to wish you a pleasant journey and an enjoyable time in Marienbad, also to thank you again for your delightful hospitality in Vienna.  I enjoyed the whole trip more than any experience I have had for a long time.

I have had a long answer from your English correspondent, to whom I wrote.  He is making himself useful by buying books, and seems a decent enough fellow, although very curious.  He is a schoolmaster, with a remarkable interest in the psychology of stammering (very specialised), which he has been investigating by means of association words, etc.. He offers to devote a year to learning |×/ which attracts him.

I hear today from Loe that she is coming to Budapest on Saturday, and am looking forward to her visit.  I think we shall both enjoy it.  No doubt she told you how well we got on together in Vienna.  Our relations are much less strained, and hence much pleasanter.

The analysis here still makes progress.  Ferenczi is very patient with my eccentricities and changes of mood, and we get ever deeper into things.  We also spend much time together in scientific talks, and understand each other very well.  He has a beautiful imagination, perhaps not always thoroughly disciplined, but always suggestive.  He has been exceedingly kind to me here, and I shall always remember it.  I have nearly a month more here, and hope to get a good deal more done in that time.  Then comes London, about which I am hopeful rather than optimistic, and plenty to do in many directions.

This last year I gave you a harder and less agreeable task than I expected, but you must try to forgive me as I could not foresee its difficulty.  I greatly admire the way you have performed it, and am beginning to feel more completely grateful than could be expected a month ago.

Now you will be having a thoroughly deserved holiday, and I expect you are impatiently counting the hours to it.  So I will close as I began with sending you my warmest good wishes.

Yours affectionately  Jones