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September 27, 1897
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
Back home after a perfect trip (twelve hours of sleep in an isolation cell), completely without work, refreshed, stimulated, and full of new ideas, I begin with something entirely superfluous — namely, once again expressing the pleasure evoked in me, as old participant and new uncle, by your work, your state of health, your wife, and your child. As for me, I praise the happy decision, to which I have held fast since midsummer, to visit you at your home in Berlin.
My children have not yet returned. I found Martha with a harmless migraine, the first since Bolzano (August 20/21 — September 27; for the collector). A new review1 of I. C. [“Infantile Cerebral Paralyses”] in Wernicke's Zeitschrift taught me what beautiful, valuable books I am in the habit of writing.
Most cordial greetings, thanks, and soon more from your
Sigm.
The reference is to a long review by a Herr Mann of Breslau, published in the Monatsschrift fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie (not the Zeitschrift, as Freud wrote). It is an extremely positive review, containing among many other praises, “The focal point of this book and its main contribution that cannot be valued highly enough … consist in its unsurpassingly clear and comprehensive presentation and critical appreciation of the entire clinical and anatomical material.”