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Vienna, May 25, 18921
Dearest friend:
I think there is no need at all for you to reply to every one of my silly jokes. I really want to be sure, now, that I can write without expecting a reply from you. All I have to tell you today is that my wife will go to Reichenau on June 1, I shall join her over Whitsun; that I am quite willing to keep out of your way while you are there, but that naturally I am also quite ready to accept the sacrifice and see you, the happy man, and cordially congratulate you for a moment either on Saturday or Tuesday if you already, or still, are there.
By the way, and since nothing more intelligent occurs to me, let me inform you that I was startled to read on your last card a W. Ch. (Wilhelm Christian). I realized only later that you write your first name equivocally.2
Cordially,
Your Dr. Freud
Will you quickly think about what you would like for a wedding present. I must know early on.
The original of this and nine other letters by Freud to the Fliess family are in Jerusalem, in the department of manuscripts and archives of the Jewish National and University Library. Pauline Jacobsohn, Fliess's daughter, who now lives in Israel, took them with her when she emigrated from Germany. The letters were first brought to my attention by Peter Swales, and the university was kind enough to put them at my disposal for this edition.
Michael Schröter has suggested that Fliess's first name, Wilhelm, commonly written “Wilh.,” could be misread as W. Ch.