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Vienna, May 21, 1911
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Professor,
I hope you have become convinced in the meantime that your concern for your brother has really grown out of soil in this world rather than in the other. Being ill is normally an omnipresent part of existence (like C H O N S1 in chemical analysis).
My wife came back today with Sophie,2 both recovered, and the latter, I hope, improved for a rather long time. I now have 4-5 difficult weeks ahead of me because of new patients, then probably a soft landing until the end of the term.
Your cooperation with Jung, if it comes about at all, should be the result of mutual needs, totally independent of me, and long in the making. You see, I think he is basically a nongregarious worker. So, you should review the points of your program that relate to your stay with him in Zurich with that in mind. The dates that you have set for your visit with us at the end of August are very agreeable to me. We will probably no longer be in Upper Bolzano by then. I can reveal to you that my wife doesn't want to go to Zurich, or at least she doesn't want to participate in the visit with Jung, for which I have set aside the last week, the one after the Congress, if it can be postponed until the 21st/22nd of September. Further, I am sure of your discretion when I reveal to you that we were married on September 14, twenty-five years ago. On the whole, it has worked out very well, unusually well in some respects. The details of our plans for the middle of September can't be firmed up yet.
The Korrespondenzblatt (which I didn't forget but found to be too thick for the letter) should have gotten to you rite3 in the meantime. Actually I didn't want to write to you before I could tell you that Adler and perhaps