Letter from Sándor Ferenczi to Sigmund Freud, August 3, 1909

Budapest, August 3, 1909
VII., Erzsébet-körut 54

Dear Professor,

I have not been very well the last few days (I was troubled by an acute intestinal inflammation)—and I didn't want to write you until I was completely recovered. Now I am again quite well and I can look forward to our great journey.—I looked up Ammerwald in Baedeker and on the map, and I noticed how well you have protected yourself this time from the invasion of your acquaintances. I hope you will recover and rest up completely there.—I thank you kindly for the cordial invitation to come there (which I actually provoked myself!). It would, however,—as I had to conclude upon mature reflection—significantly lengthen my railway journey if I made a detour by way of Munich-Ammerwald. I will therefore renounce the great pleasure of reexperiencing the beautiful days of Berchtesgaden and seek a more direct way to Bremen with a few interruptions in Germany. My preliminary decision is to travel by way of Nuremberg (August 15-16) to Frankfurt a. M. (18th) and, in addition to the aforementioned cities, which I don't yet know, perhaps take a short excursion to Rothenburg o. d. T. [ob der Tauber] or to Bayreuth (Festspiele)1 Would you like to meet in Nuremberg? If so, then I can easily dispense with the Wagner music, which I know doesn't tempt you very much.—All of this is, however, still very much up in the air. The only certainty is that I will get to Bremen in the evening of the 19th or the morning of the 2Oth and wait for you there.—With your permission, I would like to accompany you on the return by way of Hamburg-Berlin. Relatives2 are also awaiting me there—and I would also like to get to know our Berlin colleagues.

I am now working less smoothly. The great heat and my unaccustomed condition of bodily illness have crippled my power to work. I am now feeling the way I was before

I thank the Professor's wife for her kind letter3

Cordial regards from your

Truly obedient

Dr. Ferenczi