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21 February 1907, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
I am somewhat disappointed that you cannot come at Easter time, since otherwise I am taken up every day from eight to eight with the occupations known to you. But on Sundays I am free, so I must ask you to arrange your visit to Vienna in such a way as to have a Sunday available for me. If possible, I should also like to introduce you to a small circle of followers on a Wednesday evening.1
I further assume that you will be willing to forgo the theatre on the few evenings you will be spending in Vienna, and instead to dine with me and my family and spend the rest of the evening with me. I am looking forward to your acceptance and the announcement of your arrival.
With kind regards, DR. FREUD
In 1902, Freud's followers had begun meeting in Freud's waiting-room on Wednesday evenings—the so-called “Psychological Wednesday Evenings.” In 1908 the group became the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and in 1910 the meetings were moved to a room in the College of Physicians. See Herman Nunberg's introduction to Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, I: 1906-1908, edited by him and Ernst Federn (New York, 1962), p. xviii.