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Göttingen, Herzberger Landstr. 101
6.ix.1921
Dear Professor,
I should like to seize myself by both ears and tear my hair for not having given you my summer holiday address! Now I have forfeited the inexpressible pleasure of seeing you again—for which I have been yearning for years and years. Your kind card has just revealed this to me. I very nearly decided to go to Austria instead of Bavaria, and so to Vienna, for I had an invitation to spend several months in the Salzkammergut. And then Dr. Marcinowski's proposal intervened (that incidentally was a complete disappointment, but of this more anon by word of mouth). From there I kept wanting to write to you, because I became increasingly absorbed in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, but I was afraid lest I should bore you.
How happy I should be if I could only get to Vienna again at last for a while!
Warmest greetings to you all, among whom I include of course your daughter Anna, whom I have so long wanted to meet. I hope that this particularly beautiful summer has done you good. (To me it brought a high temperature, which made me lose all my hair, so that I wander around in a cap like an old granny.)
Yours,
Lou Andreas
[Sigmund Freud to Lou Andreas-Salomé, shortly before 15 September 1921. Invitation to stay.]