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Noordwijk aan Zee
6 August 1913
Dear Professor,
No better news could have reached me here than that contained in your letter. Since you tell me that my repeated requests were the decisive factor, I want to thank you sincerely for your decision. Incidentally, you will surely not be subject to the time-limit. We also had a time-limit of half an hour at previous congresses; yet I still remember with great pleasure the two hours you filled with your paper in Salzburg. Surely no one will notice when the first 25 minutes are up! I would like to ask you not to restrict yourself to a short communication, especially since Eitingon has made me very eager to hear about your new ideas on the question of choice of neurosis; but I shall gladly be content with what I have achieved by my previous letter.
We like Noordwijk very much indeed. Just today we visited the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden; I have seldom taken such pleasure in walking through a collection; there is too much in it for one visit.
I shall not forget to come to San Martino. As I am not yet absolutely certain of the day I arrive, may I ask you not to book a room for me in advance. After all, around 1 September accommodation is available without advance booking.
I wish you and your family a good move to the Tyrol, and add my kind regards to you all, also on behalf of my wife.
Your devoted
Abraham1
The Munich Congress took place on 7 and 8 September, with 87 participants present. The atmosphere was especially tense because of the burgeoning conflict with Jung; on his re-election as president, two fifths of the members abstained from voting. After the Congress Freud, along with Minna Bernays, who met him in Bologna, went to Rome for 17 days.