Vienna, October 27, 1908
IX., Berggasse 19

Dear colleague,

If I answer your letters so late and inadequately, then one can justifiably conclude that this results from an external disruption, because internally nothing has changed between us. In fact, I can inform you that my daughter has become engaged to a young man of her own choosing, a young merchant, Robert Hollitscher, here in Vienna, with whom she became acquainted—or, at least, better acquainted—in Merano.1 The mood is a very happy one, but there is naturally much more than usual that takes up one's free time.

I therefore refrain from answering your letter in more detail, but I do note already today that I regard your work on daydreams as very fruitful. I know the difficulties; one can monitor fantasies completely only in one's own person, and there one cannot share them.

Perhaps you have sought too anxiously to confirm me. If you abandon