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Karersee, August 22, 1912
Dear friend,
I am glad I heard from you today. I was just about to write to you. We are staying here until Friday, the 30th of the month, then a stop in Bolzano and then on September 2 in the Hotel Seehof, S. Cristoforo near Caldonazzo Valsugana, Tyrol. Only register there without delay and with reference to us; it is supposed to be very crowded. Come to us in Bolzano on September 1 at the well-known Posthotel Erzherzog Heinrich and make the journey with us.
You have certainly earned a vacation and relaxation, now more than ever. I will try to bring along a good mood; Karlsbad, I think, has taken a lot out of me, but I am sufficiently restored physically, still quite inactive intellectually. There is no hint at all of the previous year's lift, the plethora of ideas after the cure; it is absent altogether.
It is quite all right with me that you are so prepared to accept Rank's company; he really deserves everyone's high opinion. One such as he is doubly valuable in these times. I have no news from Brill, however, so his participation is becoming doubtful. Abraham is quite adamant that we should visit him in Berlin at the end of the trip.
If traveling in Scotland turns out to be inadvisable, we can certainly do anything else that occurs to us, maybe Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, or something else romantic or idyllic. There will be no lack of stimulation with both Joneses.1
I am probably in a good mood, extravagant, after all, because of my daughter's engagement to a very nice, trustworthy man, who is now with us; I am being compensated again in place of the thankless people around me, etc. I would like to be improved intellectually when I meet with you.
Give my kind regards to the much-tested Frau G., and don't hesitate to write me several times before you leave.
Yours truly,
Freud