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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
20.5.1921
Dear Dr Pfister,
It is of course a disgrace that I have not long since answered your cordial telegram of May 6. In self-defence I must plead a deceptive memory; until to-day's big raid on my desk I really believed I had done so long ago. Thus all I can do is belatedly express my satisfaction that a holy man like you has not allowed himself to be scared of such a heretical relationship. May it continue to bring happiness both to you and us, as in the past.
Actually, of course, you have long since been accepted into the family.
In the expectation that you will remain devoted to it (‘much prized and much rebuked’), I remain, perhaps for some years yet,
Your devoted
Freud