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Berlin-Grunewald
16. 9. 30
Dear Mr. Freud, Again and again you surprise and shame a younger man with the speed, the thoroughness and the kindly sympathy with which you answer my communications, which can form after all nothing but marginal notes to your daily intellectual activity.
It is nice to be corroborated and at the same time so outstripped by you in the understanding of a condition into which you have only been able to peer through an imperfect medium. Certainly I must have an intensive preoccupation with death—at the moment I will not venture to say more than that. For example, while I was in Leermoos writing my