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Berchtesgaden, Dietfeldhof
August 4, 1908
Dear colleague,
I have just reserved a room for you at the Hotel Bellevue, not too far from us; it is impossible to be close by, because of the isolated location of our house. I may say that I am very much looking forward to your coming, although a change in circumstances has disrupted an anticipated pleasure. On September 1 I have to go to England, where my brother's family awaits me,1 and I am unable to visit some of the cities of Holland in your company a week earlier, as I had planned.
I am swamped with the work of writing.2 I find everything more difficult and wearying than I had imagined, and I hope that you will occasionally tear me away from it.
Until now I have had little vacation. My boys will be pleased if you are a mountaineer and are willing to make a planned tour of the Hochkönig.3 Our house will remain open to you, but you should maintain your freedom, and you should not be surprised if I go about my business.
Auf Wiedersehen.
Cordially,
Freud
Freud's half-brother Emanuel (1833-1914), son of Jakob Freud (1815-1896) and his first wife, Sally Kanner (?-1852?); his wife, Marie (1836-1923); and their children Pauline (1856-1944), Bertha (1859-1940), and Solomon (Samuel) (1860-1945). The family lived in Manchester, where Emanuel ran a dry goods shop. The couple had already lost four children: John (b. 1855, missing after 1875), Matilda (1862-1868), Harriet Emily (1865-1868), and Henrietta (b. and d. 1866). See also letter 18, n. i.
Freud was working on the final draft of “Little Hans” (Freud 1909b), and probably also on his analysis of the “Rat-Man” and his article “On the Sexual Theories of Children” (1908c); see Freud/Jung, June 21, July 18, and August 5, 1908, pp. 159, 165-166.