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December 7, 1898
Dear Wilhelm,
In order to avoid a third crossing [of letters], I am answering by return mail. I believe you, as always — that you face the prospect of better times — and my “angriness”1 clearly is diminishing. So if you come, and since you evidently do not want to travel too far, we shall soon have settled the choice of place for the congress. In Berlin we would have less of each other; I would profit quo ad [with respect to] Paulinchen and my sick sister. As to my miserable mood, which I probably cannot conceal from you, two other factors are responsible, apart from the previously mentioned one that made me angry: the monotony of the heavy burden of work and the awful tedium of the literature on dreams, which nevertheless must be read. At any rate, it is a change from the usual. The children are thriving, the household is doing well. Vienna and the conditions here are almost physically repulsive to me. No doubt this simply means that one is growing old, becoming nervous, and the constitution is slackening. It has always been very open to being refreshed by psychic impressions. Therefore I am tremendously looking forward to Christmas.
Greet your wife and children for me!
Your
Sigm.