Letter from Sigmund Freud to Sándor Ferenczi, May 14, 1911

Vienna, May 14, 1911
IX., Berggasse 19

Dear friend,

You were unjustifiably disappointed if you missed the answer to your question about the stay in Bolzano. My letter was not yet the answer to your last one but rather crossed it. I can now tell you that I will go to Karlsbad on July 9 and expect to arrive in Bolzano on August 1, that we plan to stay there for two weeks,1 perhaps somewhat longer if the others are still in the mood to stay. From the middle of August until the middle of September (now comes the hasty sentence!)2 would be the time for the second vacation, perhaps at Lake Caldonazzo. It would be useless to give you more specific details, since no more can be determined now. But I think you know what you should consider for determining your own vacation.

You will see from the enclosed Korrespondenzblatt that Jung has suggested two dates for the Congress. I will have to write him that the earlier ones, the 16th/17th of September, are difficult for me to accept for the private reasons known to you.3

It also appears to me that you have chosen the more pessimistic assessment for your brother. An ulcer on the palate is not a direct indication of syphilis. Is he the one from Berlin, whom I know? I think not.—Unfortunately, I can't remember a Herr Lorschy, even from the indications given. In any case, he wasn't with Nepallek, and I didn't hear anything more from him.

It also seems to me that you and Jung ought to proceed together, or you at least ought to know about each other; I wrote to him to that effect a few days ago.4 But the understanding between you ought to come without my intervention, otherwise it would be incapable of surviving. I am in agreement with your judgment about being premature. Your explanatory remarks about the little Kohn made an impression on me. I think that is a point of departure from which we will get somewhere.

I wish you brighter spirits and send kind regards.

Yours,

Freud