Dear List,
Every re-reading of VN brings up a surprise, Ada´s in particular.
This time the name of a Hotel in Mont Roux, Switzerland ( Bellevue ) made me remember Freud´s visit to Charcot at the Salpetrière and a connection with a place named "Bellevue" and one of his most famous dream interpretations ( The Irma Injection ).

In "Ada" the name Bellevue appeared in association with Dorothy Vinelander and her insistent project of having Van "analyse her pet nightmare" and, later, with the word "Sorcière".

I wonder if VN read Freud´s "Die Traumdeutung" in its entirety and if this was the book that started to set him against the Viennese "quacks".

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1. Dasha, my sister-in-law (...) asks me to add she hopes to ‘renew’ your acquaintance — maybe in Switzerland, at the Bellevue in Mont Roux, in October (...) She is very good at perceiving and pursuing originality and all kinds of studies which I can’t even name! (...)she attended (...) one of your public lectures on dreams, after which she went up to you with her latest little nightmare all typed out and neatly clipped together, and you scowled darkly and refused to take it.
2. When he reached at long last the whitewashed and blue-shaded Bellevue (patronized by wealthy Estotilanders, Rheinlanders, and Vinelanders, but not placed in the same superclass as the old, tawny and gilt, huge, sprawling, lovable Trois Cygnes).
3. ( At the Bellevue...) Dorothy preambled her long-delayed report on her pet nightmare with a humble complaint (‘Of course, I know that for your patients to have bad dreams is a zhidovskaya prerogativa’), but her reluctant analyst’s attention (...) she thought fit to interrupt her narrative (which had to do with the eruption of a dream volcano)
4. Friday morning, at nine o’clock — as bespoken on the eve — he drove over to the Bellevue, with the pleasant plan of motoring to Sorcière to show her the house.

Quick and very superficial data by "googling":
" In May1895 Freud together with Joseph Breuer published Studies on Hysteria. The work maintains the sexual etiology of neurosis. Succeeds in the historic analysis of Irma's Injection dream while in Bellevue, in July".

More information:

Freud´s "Die Traumdeutung" was published in 1900. Its translation into English by James Strachey and his copious annotations date from 1953. There is a reference by Freud that was added in another edition in 1930, mentioning there were former translations - where he mentions N.Y doctor A.A.Brill´s in particular.

The part that interested me in connection to "Bellevue" is found in the second chapter of the first volume of Freud´s The Interpretation of Dreams.
" The Method of Interpreting Dreams: an Analysis of a Specimen Dream", where we find the description of the famous "Dream of the Irma Injection".
The reason for the importance for detailing the name of the house where Freud had had the dream comes in a foot-note at the end of the chapter.

It reads:

"[In a letter to Fliess on June 12, 1900 Freud describes a later visit to Bellevue, the house where he had this dream. 'Do you suppose', he writes, ' that some day a marble tablet will be placed on the house, inscribed with these words? -

In This House, on July 24th, 1895 the Secret of Dreams

was Revealed to Dr. Sigm. Freud

At the moment there seems little prospect of it']"

And yet, I this foot-note was not present in Freud´s original, perhaps not even in the other translations, such as A.A.Brill´s. Bellevue is mentioned in Freud´s original, though, when he begins to describe his "Analysis" of the dream, when he states:
"We were spending that summer at Bellevue, a house standing by itself on one of the hills adjoining the Kahlenberg. The house had formerly been designed as a place of entertainment and its reception-rooms were in consequence unusually lofty and hall-like" (...)

Considering the importance that the month of July has in Ada, I wondered about the important dates VN mentioned. We have, of course, Ada´s birthday in July 21 and the two fundamental picnics that took place on that date. There were famous encounters ( the most important took place in July 14 ) but quite often the dating only points to "mid-July". I could not find the date of Van´s own birthdate, though. Only a reference:
"The 195 days preceding that event being indistinguishable from infinite unconsciousness, are not to be included in perceptual time, so that, insofar as my mind and my pride of mind are concerned, I am today (mid-July, 1922) quite exactly fifty-two, et trêve de mon style plafond peint.