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Vienna, July 10, 1900
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
It is easily explained and solved after all. Since you could not at that point give me a definite date and I had one, I postponed our congress to later during the vacation. Now that you have disclosed your plans, I can only reply that they suit me splendidly. I can be in Innsbruck on July 31 and remain with you there until August 4; the women can follow on August 4 and I shall then go to Landeck with Martha, whence we can take a carriage to Trafoi. If no child falls ill, no bridge collapses, there is no other mishap — that is how it will be. I have to overcome a slight sense of regret that once again I shall not have an opportunity to see the children and that you will see me at the height of exhaustion and ill humor, but the main thing is that we shall get together; every postponement entails risks. You did not tell me anything about your further plans, so I do not know whether anything else might have been possible during this vacation. So this is settled and I look forward to it after not having had anything to look forward to for a long time.
I remain very curious to learn the details of your rehabilitation as well as everything else that you promise me, though I cannot vouch to reciprocate. I am totally exhausted by my work and everything connected with it that is germinating, enticing, and threatening. The summer, by the way, was not too bad. The question of obtaining summer work, which appeared to be a problem a year ago, has now settled itself. On the one hand, it is not necessary; on the other, I would not have had the strength for it. The big problems are still wholly unresolved. Everything is in flux and dawning, an intellectual hell, with layer upon layer; in the darkest core, glimpses of the contours of Lucifer-Amor.