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Göttingen, last day of March 23†
Dear Professor,
Let me at least send you a greeting by means of our kind courier! Very many thanks for your letter. When I came upon the enclosure I was filled with astonishment and wondered whether this golden Easter egg could really be meant for me. I accepted it along with Anna as coming from you, and I can only give you thanks again and again, just as I cannot hope to give Anna anything in return. You may perhaps see this from a different angle, but she really is a perpetual gift to me. When, as this week, we are ‘young girls together’ again, I feel fully what a treasure life has given me in her.
I hope that Anna will find Heinerle153 in good health; we still feel anxious about him despite your wife's card. Tomorrow Anna travels home via Oliver's fiancée [in Berlin]. A frightful to-ing and fro-ing in any case, whichever route she chooses. However, she arrived here after those bad nights as if she had had a long uninterrupted sleep.
We must make up for the short time we were together with a longer visit on another occasion. In the meantime we are both glad to make any sacrifice necessary for our patients. And I must say, they are worth it; in my heart of hearts I could not do without them.
Dear Professor, I wish you a good sunny spring, so that you may enjoy the best of health. Here we have had lots of sunlight and moonlight, but today it is drizzling again.
Your grateful
Lou
The second child of Freud's deceased daughter Sophie. The boy, to whom Freud was deeply attached, had been for some months in the charge of his aunt, Mathilde Hollitscher-Freud, and had contracted tuberculosis.
† Written during Anna Freud's visit to Göttingen, presumably from 24 March to the end of the month.