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Riemerlehen, August 1, 18991
Vienna
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
I am sending you the first proofs of the introductory (literature) chapter in two envelopes at the same time. If there is anything you object to, send me that page with your remarks; there is still time to use them, until the second or third proofs. I cannot tell you how much good your lively interest in this work does me. Unfortunately, this chapter will prove to be a hard test for the reader.
Things are incomparably beautiful here; we take walks, long and short, and all of us are very well, except for my occasional symptoms. I am working on the completion of the dream book in a large, quiet, ground-floor room with a view of the mountains. My old and grubby gods, of whom you think so little, take part in the work as paperweights for my manuscripts. The loss of the big dream that you eliminated is to be compensated for by the insertion of a small collection of dreams (harmless, absurd dreams; calculations and speeches in dreams; affects in dreams). Only the last, psychological chapter needs to be reworked, and that I shall perhaps tackle in September and send you in manuscript form or — bring with me. It occupies my full interest.
There are some mushrooms here as well, though not yet many. The children naturally join in the hunt for them. The birthday of the