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Bolzano, 2 September 1912
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
73F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
Having arrived here following a wonderful stay in Karersee, only occasionally interrupted by cold weather, news has now reached me that my eldest daughter1 has recently fallen ill, so that I am going to have to return to Vienna and probably to write off the rest of my holiday. I have already cancelled a visit to Jones in London planned for 8 September.
Since I've owed you a letter for some time, I am writing to you now, before I am once again distracted by Viennese impressions. I cannot quite make out to what extent you see an excuse for Jung's behaviour — if it is so mistaken that it needs one — in his productive phase. Perhaps I fail to make you out because I am not being productive myself at present.
Karlsbad did me quite a lot of good but was otherwise quite taxing. I hope that you, your wife and your children are well and that your work is in full flow.
A Berlin lawyer2 has asked me to substantiate the remark about Friedländer3 I made at a party in your mother's house in favour of one of Friedländer's adversaries at the court of honour. But I dislike that sort of thing and am saying nothing.
With kind regards to you and your family,
Yours ever,
Freud