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Vienna, March 24, 1912
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Arbe is confirmed, room reserved for us in the hotel annex. I hope you are satisfied with it. Arbe is supposed to be the most beautiful and most varied part of Dalmatia, with woods, drinking water, and beach.
You see, your information has made the order of travel from April 1 on out of the question. I will leave here with the Southern Railway at 9:30, and we will, I think, meet in Nabresina; in any case, we will arrive in Fiume early enough to be able to have breakfast (Oli is not home yet!).1 The ship leaves on Saturday at 10:15 and arrives in Arbe at 3:10 and returns on Tuesday. So, very convenient. Let us hope everything will come out well, and we will find in Arbe something of the comfort that we sought in vain in Sicily the last time.
Jung writes today that he has been invited by Fordham University to give a series of lectures starting in September.2 Since his military service runs from August 22 until September 6, he has set the date for the Congress for August 19/20 in Munich, i.e., he is inquiring with me for that reason and wants to ask the branch societies about it. I asked him by telegram to postpone these inquiries and will write to him that this date is terribly inconvenient for me; it disrupts my vacation; I will be in Karlsbad until August 10. August is also—in addition to being in Munich—not a time for scientific work. It is thus advisable to leave the Congress open this year, which he can motivate very well with his trip to America. The latter is again an encouraging sign.
With Elma things continue to go gloomily. She has brought out several quite surprisingly intelligent insights, but she doesn't want to get into the experience with you and doesn't seem to want to finish with me; i. e, because of the transference she wishes to extend her stay past Easter, which I don't want to do. So I am cooling off noticeably again.
I am very much looking forward to Easter and send kind regards.
Yours truly,
Freud