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Vienna, June 9, 1901
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
I am using this strange Sunday to write to you once again. It is the first Sunday I have been completely free, with nothing to remind me that at other times I am a physician. My ancient lady, whom I have been visiting twice a day regularly, was taken to the country yesterday,
and I am looking at the clock every fifteen minutes to see whether I am not keeping her waiting too long for her injection. Thus we still feel our shackles even after they have been removed and do not really know how to enjoy our freedom.
To answer your questions: we have not yet decided where we shall spend the summer. I think it will be somewhere near Salzburg. The negotiations with the boardinghouse on the Salzberg near Berchtesgaden have become somewhat protracted because of the slowness of these good people. At Whitsun I went with my brother to find a place in Vorarlberg. The proximity of Switzerland and the moderate prices were tempting, but nothing came of it. The cost of traveling there would cancel what we would save in the boarding-house, and what the landscape has to offer does not justify the expense. In any event, it was more of a pretext for a Whitsun excursion than a serious intent; we spent one day at the Bodensee.
“Everyday Life” will appear in the July issue of the Monatsschrift. If I were to abstain from forming an opinion of my works, only your favorable opinion of them would be left. “Dreams and Hysteria” has been sent off and will probably not come to the attention of the astounded public until fall.
Your Bresgen article will certainly be welcome.
My sister-in-law left the sanatorium at Edlach yesterday and will go to her mother in Reichenhall tomorrow morning. She is feeling better; that is, she can walk for about three-quarters of an hour without difficulties. She has intermittent attacks of ulcer pains; according to her doctors' report (Oscar and Dr. Konried), the defect has now become evident. I know that one has to regar