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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
June 12, 1900
My dear Wilhelm
We have had family visitors. The day before Whitsun my eldest brother arrived with his youngest son, Sam, who is already over thirty-five, and they stayed till Wednesday evening. His visit was very refreshing, for he is an excellent man, vigorous and mentally alert despite his age (sixty-eight to sixty-nine), and he has always meant a great deal to me. He then left for Berlin, now the family headquarters….
Life at Bellevue1 is shaping very pleasantly for us all. The evenings and mornings are lovely; the scent of acacia and syringa has succeeded that of lilac and laburnum; the wild roses are in bloom and all this, as even I can see, seems to be happening overnight.
Do you think that one day there will be a marble tablet on this house, saying:
In this House on July 24, 1895 the Secret of Dreams was revealed to Dr. Sigmund Freud