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7 July 1909, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I am enclosing the manuscript of the Rat Man1 and H. Silberer's short piece on the observation of dream-work,2 both for your editorial consideration. Mine was hard going and hasn't turned out to my satisfaction. I feel like prefacing it with Busch's fine verses about the painter Klecksel's childhood drawing:
“It gives us an uncommon viewOf what our inner natures do.”3
But that's enough. You'll read it.
It's high time for this season to end. My psychic unpleasure in working has become really acute, I can't wait for the all-too-short holiday. On the evening of the 14th we shall be going via Munich to Ammerwald, Post Reutte, Tyrol. Of course letters to my Vienna address will always reach me. In the meantime a consultation trip may come through, to—Salonica. But I have asked for so much money for the five days that the need for me will probably vanish. It's not even a case for ΨA.
Marcinowski tells me that Semon4 in London has sent him a case to analyse. Upon our return M. wants to meet in Hamburg, where I