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Vienna, September 29, 1893
Dearest friend,
I left myself some time so that I could ask you about the success of the operation and whether you have to go back to Bremen once more. That your diagnosis was correct I already knew, since you altogether ruin my critical faculties and I really believe you in everything. I shall be very glad to hear that you are free of headaches. You will then enjoy life so much more. I think it was very nice of Schein-mann to touch upon so many themes and yet leave so much for you. A true precursor with whom one need not be angry. I have the highest expectations for your work if only you will get well so that you can devote yourself to it and to the polyclinic.
I am sending you today an obituary of Charcot that was published at the beginning of September.1 If I have already sent it to you, then ten thousand apologies. My wife is getting ready to come home. All the children are still well and thriving. Shortly after our epidemic of throat infections, there were several light cases of scarlet fever in Reichenau.
I am still very insufficiently occupied and am correspondingly ill-humored. Breuer is an obstacle to my professional progress in Vienna. He dominates the very circles on which I had counted. His friendship for me, of which he has given indubitable proof, is in evidence far less than I would have expected in “paving the way” for my practice.
I happen to have very few new sexualia. I shall soon start tackling hysteria.
My little nieces' departure for America has been delayed. The days in Reichenau did us such good because they showed us that we exercise a certain attraction for both of you, even when you can have the company of parents and siblings. Thus we are hoping to have another merry get-together before the year is out, in good health on both sides.