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Budapest, August 11, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
I gratefully confirm your latest news about the travel plan, which is now beginning to take more definite shape. Up to now the all-too great uncertainty was an obstacle in my ability to succumb uninhibitedly to a mood of expectation. Now I am beginning to concern myself more seriously with Baedeker and the timetable.
The Jahrbuch is very rich in content. Abraham's work is outstanding: clear, moderate, convincing. I find points of contact between my fantasies of yesterday about sleeping and dreaming and his explanation (read today) of “dream states.”
Skipping over Jung, Maeder, and Pfister, I read for the time being only Jung's astute critique of Wittels's book and then the foreign reports from Italy and Russia. The latter are incomplete (mention of the Russian translation of Everyday Life1 is missing). The Antithetical Sense of Primal Words (about which I was already informed in principle) never ceased to astound me in your paper.2 We are still missing a competent philologist.
All in all, the Jahrbuch is very impressive; our opponents will certainly get thoroughly annoyed again.
As for myself, I am still stuck in contemplation; but I am full of good intentions, which now, of course, I can't actualize until fall.
I definitely hope to be in Antwerp one day before embarkation, and I am looking forward to the honorable city of Bruges.
I ask you for occasional (if brief) reports.
Yours,