Berlin-Grunewald
8. 1. 32

Dear and revered Mr. Freud, You know yourself how much pleasure you gave to me and to my wife with this photo of an old Jew. Your well-known features—a little more ascetic but with undiminished energy in both expression and bearing, without any of the false “resignation” of the years. Nothing has given me so much pleasure since the appearance of Junge Frau. If I did not write straightaway and thank you and turn to you—inwardly I was doing it all the time—it was just because I was waiting to see whether I would not be able to tell you that I would soon be coming to thank you personally. For I am supposed to be delivering another lecture in Vienna and that might easily be combined with a holiday in the mountains. But in connection with all this a lot has to be fitted in and so as yet I have not accepted the invitation.