Letter from Freud to Fliess, July 4, 1901

Vienna, July 4, 1901
IX., Berggasse 19

Dear Wilhelm,

Since my interest in you and your family is no longer being fully satisfied by our correspondence, I usually inquire at Oscar's and in this way learned about the threat of measles. I hope they pass comfortably. I have no objections whatsoever if my theoretically hardly tenable optimism proves to be right in practice as frequently as possible.

You ask so many questions that this reply is bound to be long. So my consulting hour will be a letter-writing hour.

I still am unable to tell you for certain where we are going. After a variety of plans miscarried, we hit on something improvised that will probably come off. During the two-day holiday at the end of June I visited Mama and Minna in Reichenhall, took a carriage ride to nearby Thumsee, and fell in love with the little place: Alpine roses right down to the road, the small green lake, glorious woods all around, with strawberries, flowers, and (I hope) mushrooms as well. So I inquired about the possibility of getting accommodations at the only inn. They are letting rooms there for the first time this year because the owner, a physician and proprietor from Bad Kirchberg who used to live there himself, died. And now the negotiations are