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Vienna, January 10, 1911
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I am very happy about the opportunity which you told me about of seeing you several times this month. I have, however, a lecture on Saturday evening and then a game of tarok afterwards, and if I don't let myself be disturbed, I won't be able to see you until Sunday. You will certainly come for lunch.
I will also ask you why your last letters, insofar as they were not about factual matters, revealed an elegiac character. I am awaiting the connection to our trip, but I will not let that stand.
Unfortunately, I must also tell you that Martin suffered a fall on a ski trip on the Schneeberg1 on Sunday and was left lying with a fractured thigh. He wasn't brought in until this evening and is now with Fürth2 and will be examined by Schnitzler3 tomorrow. His general condition is good, the injury perhaps not too severe. Let us hope it will still turn out all right with a few months in sickbed and superarbitrium.4
Kind regards,
Freud
Popular recreational mountain for the Viennese near the Rax, where Freud had his conference with “Katharina” (Freud 1895d, pp. 125-134).
Otto von Fürth (1867-1938), associate professor of medicinal chemistry and, from 1923 on, full professor and director of the Medicinal Chemistry Institute of the University of Vienna.
Julius Schnitzler (1865-1939), brother of Arthur, a well-known surgeon; since 1902 chief surgeon at the Wieden Hospital and since 1905 titular and, from 1928 on, associate professor of surgery. Julius Schnitzler was a friend and occasional tarok partner of Freud's.