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21 April 1912, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I hope you are home again, refreshed by a pleasant holiday. Now perhaps you will be interested to hear about the rather uneventful interval.
I spent three days with Ferenczi on a quiet Dalmatian island;1 the bora was blowing on the way back, but I wasn't seasick. Since then sheer hard work has prevented me from collecting my thoughts. Van Emden has come to stay for a few weeks until his wife has got the house in The Hague ready to which he is moving to practice ΨA. Spielrein, to whom I was glad not to mention your criticism, came to say good-bye2 a few days ago and discussed certain intimate matters with me. My correspondence with Binswanger has revived; what I had interpreted as flagging interest might better have been explained by illness and an operation.
Your news of Bleuler is of the greatest interest to me. If he receives an appointment elsewhere or resigns, you can imagine how glad I should be for you to exchange your house on the lake for Burghölzli. But I don't think he will leave unless he gets an appointment. His material circumstances would not allow it. On the other hand, I note to my regret that his withdrawal from the Zürich group seems to have done the group more harm than I could foresee, and I would greatly