Letter from Karl Abraham to Sigmund Freud, June 19, 1916

293A

Allenstein
19 June 1916

Dear Professor,

Your last letter has lain unanswered for a month. In the meantime my family has settled here completely. In the little town, in the garden house near the forest, we feel as though we were on a summer holiday; we shall not be able to have one in the true sense this year. After a separation of 1¹/₄ years we are happy to be together again. We have removed our little girl completely from school for the summer and are having her privately taught here for a while. The boy, who is developing splendidly, is still a source of psychological education for me. The various tasks of moving here in these hard times, and, besides, the hospital work, which is still strenuous, have stopped me from writing for a long time.

I must thank you for your kind words about my last article. I do not mind at all where it is published. First of all the work I sent first will probably appear in the . We cannot for the moment think of a new volume of the Jahrbuch. Even if the times were more favourable to our work, we should probably be scarcely able to get the necessary contributions together. So it would probably be best to print the second article in the , as soon as it is short of other material. I am very glad to have won your approval for the new work, too. I am sorry there is now no opportunity to discuss these subjects. Are the sessions of the Vienna Association actually still taking place?

I am eager to hear more about how all your family is getting on, at home and in the field. I hope your next letter will bring good news. Are you making plans for the summer? And what are they? Karlsbad first of all? Are you coming to Germany at any time? And then will there be a chance to meet? I shall probably be coming in September to the Neurologists' Congress in Munich, that is to say in an official capacity. Then it might be possible to meet in Salzburg or in some other place.

From a scientific point of view I have hardly anything new to re