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Vienna, January 30, 1898
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
As your beautiful quotation surmised so correctly, your letter found me yesterday on a day of wild joyfulness, unfortunately only internal; for there are few external reasons. These mood changes in me are related to dreams and my self-analysis; I understand little of them. Today I am sober again. Your gift of the dream pleased me greatly; it will be a valuable contribution for me. I may publish it?
This morning two things appeared to me to go against the grain. I read your letter more carefully and had to replace my first impression — that you, like me, were too merry to work — with another one — that you have not been well at all.