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Vienna, October 18, 1893
Dearest friend,
I hope that my confidence in the speediest recovery of your dear wife arrives at your house after that recovery has itself taken place. It cannot be her desire to be ill, so I shall not dwell on that at all. I waited a long time for news of your well-being and was just about to write you of my concern. Generally I am not in the habit of torturing you with obligations to write, but I am so very ignorant that I have no idea of the scope of such an operation.
Today I am already tired of writing; I had a distressing disagreement with Breuer, which occasioned [my writing] many letters.1 He ended up behaving so graciously that everything is smoothed over; I have just finished my last letter to him, and the one to you I really cannot postpone any longer.
I could write a great deal about the nose and sexuality (two topics). That you see little material of this kind is indeed evidence of its preselection. At present people are not rushing to consult me, yet I see the most beautiful cases and have even made some progress. Next time I shall tell you about an observation of migraine with scotomas in masturbators, unfortunately without involvement of the nose. I have established contact here with a Dr. Weil2 who is much brighter than Laufer;3 he studied under Schrötter,4 is a Jew, reads — in short, he would be quite suitable if he were not so ill-mannered. I refer patients to him and urge him to read your writings, and so on. He recently made a remark that I promised to convey to you. He objects to a trifling matter, the case of a woman who in one year had six miscarriages in the second month. He believes this must be a lapse because there was not sufficient time,