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Vienna, February 9, 1898
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
So I have guessed correctly and congratulate you on the increase in your observational material and the opportunity to predetermine all sorts of things — in addition to everything else. I hope Ida will be equally happy when the current period of suffering is behind her. Mela is very well and is indeed very lovable; I am decidedly partial to her.—Your last A and P1 experiments are simply uncanny. It probably is not just your good fortune of having married into this family, but others provide similar results.
The reduction of our Easter trip corresponds to the general decline this year. I can, after all, get into a state of real exultation only far away from Madrid! The essential thing, our having a few hours together, does, however, remain certain.
On Sunday I was in Hungary for a consultation. A fifty-year-old lady claimed that she went about on wooden rollers, that her limbs were limp like an articulated doll's, and that she would soon start crawling on all fours. I am, by the way, for no accountable reason in a splendid mood and have found my daytime interest. I am deep in the dream book, am writing it fluently, and enjoy the thought of all the “head shaking”2 over the indiscretions and audacities it contains.