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Burghölzli-Zürich, 24 April 1908
Dear Professor Freud,
Don't take any notice of my moodiness. If not too much is expected of me personally, I am usually at the top of my form on such occasions. One thing alone bothers me and that is the affair with Gross. His father1 has written urging me to take him back with me to Zürich. As ill luck would have it, I have some urgent business on the 28th with my architect in Munich.2 In the meantime of course Gross will give me the slip. Unfortunately Bleuler doesn't enjoy his confidence or he could bring him along. Gross takes not only cocaine but also large quantities of opium.
Apart from this painful intermezzo I am looking forward to seeing you again. I hope we shall have a chance to chat on our walks. Two people have signed off: Morton Prince (Riklin will lecture in his stead), and one deus minorum gentium, in whose stead a lady is leaping into the breach—Frau Prof. Erismann,3 the wife of the famous hygienist formerly at Moscow University. She is a doctor and an enthusiastic adherent of your psychology.
It is the fault of our recent correspondence that my lecture on Dem. praec.4 has turned into a formulation of my views on D. pr. and