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Vienna, January 17, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
You are correct. The sentence lacks a negation. The letter was written on the eve of an inner earthquake, a bad migraine, and at such times I have the bad habit of directly contradicting myself. The attack certainly has no worse significance.
Look for Strohmayer's work where we will soon find yours. It is really good and perhaps all the more suited to making an impression in that it protests initially against belonging to the school—it is to be hoped out of diplomatic rather than arrogant motives.
I have heard nothing more from America, not even a reply to my inquiries of Brill. I have no trust, and fear the prudery of the new continent. If the trip should materialize, against all human expectation, then your participation is a matter of course. I am still missing the offprint of your first lecture at the Society of Physicians and have also not seen one in the archive of the Wednesday Society.
The work is now very difficult, hardly capable of getting accomplished. These demands on me should have come along a decade earlier.
Cordially,
Freud