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9 March 1909, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Many thanks for1 your telegram and letter, which (the telegram in itself did the trick) put an end to my anxiety. I evidently still have a traumatic hyperaesthesia toward dwindling correspondence. I remember its genesis well (Fliess) and should not like to repeat such an experience unawares. In the end—though I could imagine that certain obstacles must have accumulated in your overcrowded existence and though I had rejected the idea of illness as too neurotic—in the end I just had to hear from you so as to be able to inform you of a matter which now occupies my thoughts and about which I have written to others.
This I shall dispose of first, then I shall have a free mind with which to answer your very interesting letter. You recall that last December I received an invitation from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., which I had to decline because the festivities during which my lectures were to be delivered were scheduled for the second week in July