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Budapest, June 26, 1918
Dear Professor,
The frightful conditions in city and empire1 have almost spoiled for me the pleasure that the news of your Budapest sojourn prepared me for. Order is gradually returning here, so they can't mean any external hindrance for your coming here.—Do you know anything yet about your Martin? I had to think of him countless times in these gruesome days. I can also vividly picture your mood!
The weather is autumnally cool. Even the Yankee from that time would now have preferred Budapest to Switzerland. Let us hope the summer saves up all the heat for us for the stay in Csorba.
In July I will be working only at half steam, in order to enable me to be with you more often. I hear with satisfaction that Ernst is also coming to Budapest.—
We will only forge plans for your program on the spot. Nice walks in the surroundings of Budapest should play a considerable role in that; a good restaurant should always serve us as a goal for an outing.—I often think now about the “honeymoon” of our acquaintance in Berchtesgaden just ten years ago. In the meantime some changes have taken place in me—the newest one may give me the inner freedom that still eluded me in Palermo.
We could also gather up the Lamarck-Darwin literature from libraries here. I would also like to collaborate on the fifth edition of the Interpretation of Dreams, so that the Hungarian translation is brought up to the level of this edition.