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27 April [190]9
14B
Dear Professor,
Herr v. T. leaves here tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2 o'clock and arrives in Vienna at 6.30 on Thursday morning. We can now calmly let him travel! I am very excited how you will judge him; it is certainly easier for you than for me. Since his mother left he is decidedly better, composes his thoughts more clearly, speaks better. Thoughts of death have not disappeared, as you will see, but practically do not now come into consideration. He was already better physically, [but] being confined to his room for a long time, because of the carbuncle on his leg,1 has left him rather pale.
You see, dear Professor, that I have behaved fairly passively with Herr v. T; do not draw from that any conclusions about my behaviour with other patients. I should be delighted if you are satisfied with the result of his stay here, which I never saw as anything but provisional mental and physical care for the duration of his ‘acute depression’.
With kind regards
Yours L. Binswanger
Cf. letter 9B.