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2 May 1909
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
15F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Colleague,
You have done excellent work with J. v. T., gaining his lasting good will, and should it prove impossible to effect a cure, your clinic will always remain the haven he will seek out in difficult times.1 I found him appreciably more sober, obliging and accessible and shall resume his treatment tomorrow. He has a great deal in him.
Your manuscript,2 which I could not get down to during the past week, the most strenuous I have ever had to face, will cheer up my evening this Sunday. Let us hope that your hand and my eye will come to terms with each other. I should be very sorry if I had to confess that so paltry a reason prevented me from appreciating your work before it was printed. I am panting a great deal under the work load, am no longer fully satisfied with my corpus and am at present turning out to be quite unproductive. I am already living on my past. What work I can still do must go into the third edition of Everyday Life and the second of the ‘Theory of Sexuality’3.
Many thanks for sending me another copy of your thesis. Someone must have carried off the first.
In the hope still of seeing you before America,4 with sincere regards to your family,
Yours, Freud
J. v. T. received treatment at the Bellevue as an in-patient from 29 January to 28 April 1909, but had to be taken back into the Bellevue in April 1910 and a third time in April 1911; cf. 26F.