Letter from Sigmund Freud to C. G. Jung, March 5, 1908

5 March 1908, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Dear friend,

As soon as I received your letter, I had my sister-in-law1 write to the Hotel Bristol in Salzburg (on Makartplatz). From your quarter

eighteen persons are expected, from Vienna there will be ten or twelve, perhaps as many as fifteen. That adds up to lodgings for thirty. Whether we can find a meeting hall in the hotel itself or whether the proprietor will find us one elsewhere, or whether I shall have to make a quick trip to Salzburg to arrange for a hall, will be decided by post in the next few days. I will let you know at once, so that you may start on your April trip free from all business worry. As for the programme, permit me the following remarks. If you must give me the honour of the first lecture, then I think you ought to deliver the last one. That will counterbalance the loss of interest that is otherwise to be feared; in their eagerness to hear you, the intervening speakers will hurry. But in this case, I think, a foreigner, Jones for instance, ought to have second place, followed by a Viennese and then Morton Prince, or both Englishmen2 right after myself. I hear that Sadger, that congenital fanatic of orthodoxy, who happens by mere accident to believe in psychoanalysis rather than in the law given by God on Sinai-Horeb, has put too much case material into his paper and may withdraw it. — On the list I miss Riklin, whom you had announced, and Abraham who wrote me some weeks ago that he wished to speak on Ψ-sexual differences between hysteria and Dem. pr.3 — I have one more suggestion for you. I want to give the floor to a noble spirit who can be present only in the form of a quotation, to wit, Friedrich Schiller, in whose correspondence with Körner (letter of 1 December 1788) our secretary Otto Rank has found a delightful passage in justification of our psychoanalytic technique.4 It would take Rank only a few minutes to