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Budapest, January 2, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-köeút 54
Dear Professor,
Many thanks for the New Year's wishes, and the same to you. I don't know whether I have already told you once or several times (in any case, repeating it confirms the truth) how gratefully I think of you every time I get the opportunity to reflect. I know that the many years in which you have been misunderstood have very strongly diminished your receptivity to admiration, recognition, etc. (see in connection to that the passage in the Interpretation of Dreams where you so morosely disdain the effusive admiration of a pupil [in the coffee house]1)—but you must gradually accustom yourself to the fact that times have improved, and that, without the danger of later disappointment, you can rely upon having enhanced the lives and occupations of a very large number of people who were previously striving in vain for recognition. It is my unshakable conviction, however, that these adherents are but the predecessors of all humanity, which, for