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Budapest, April 15, 1918
12:45 at night
Dear Professor,
You should at least hear by way of here that, on the occasion of the conclusion of the revision of the Hungarian “Interpretation of Dreams,” Frau G. and I drank a glass of red wine to your health this evening.
The work of revision was very hard; for that reason I am indebted to it for a new deepening of my insight into the dream and the psychology of the unconscious. The compulsion to re-create, as it were, what has been read by means of translation into another language, combined with the critical quest for misunderstandings in the rough translation of Dr. Hollòs, who is, by the way, very commendable and conscientious, has only now made me completely conscious of many hidden insights of the text. It is unbelievable what all you have hidden in the psychological part of the work. In the Interpretation of Dreams one already finds everything that Ψα. has found since.
Now, on to practical things.—Matlárháza has been notified, that is to say, appealed to, along your lines; the reply is still pending. Instead of that I have learned that even the Dr. Lévys didn't get a place to stay in Matlárháza. I also hear that this locality is quite deficient in some respects (e.g., with regard to cleanliness).
Dr. Freund is now occupying himself mainly with the matter of your