Letter from Sigmund Freud to Karl Abraham, June 5, 1910

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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
5 June 1910

Dear Doctor,

Apart from being ill and having to work,1 my long silence has been due to the delay in the appearance of Leonardo, which I had expected from one week to the next. L. is out at last, my digestion is improving under medical care, but I still have to work for another 40 days. At least my eldest is very much better. Wife and second daughter returned from Karlsbad today.

Your good news pleased me very much. Otherwise you are just the man to stick things out. Attacks still do not disturb my mood. Our latest reaction,2 the foundation of the , will soon turn out to be biologically advantageous. Privy Councillor Friedländer (!) recently spent four hours with me one evening; I kept him for such a long time in order to study him. As a result of the examination I ask you to take it [it really need not be kept secret]3 that he is a liar, a scoundrel, and an ignoramus.

Yesterday I had a much more pleasing visit from Ossipow of Moscow,4 who has a good mind and is a convinced follower. He came to get permission to publish the Worcester lectures in Russian in his journal.5

If your small group should be showing signs of despondency, then comfort them with the news that the third edition of the Interpretation of Dreams is to appear this winter, that is to say, only a year after the second.6 The interval between the first and second ones was nine years. Nonum prematur in annum.7

I have of course been able to do only a small amount of work. Just now I am preparing a trifle on love life for the Jahrbuch.8 We will probably put the Nuremberg talk into the first issue of the .9

Jung is having great difficulties in Z.[urich] at present.10 The Jahrbuch is delayed through Deuticke's fault, the organization is moving slowly. There are such times, but the standstill is only apparent.—Do the domestic news refer only to your changing apartments?

I send my cordial greetings to you and your dear family,