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9.5.1929
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
My dear Lou
Many thanks for your birthday visit! I was able to have such a good talk with you and thus make up for a deprivation to which I submit very unwillingly. For during your two visits to Tegel in person I noticed that I found it very difficult to carry on a conversation with you and had to leave the talking to Anna. The reason for this was that with my impaired hearing I was not able to understand your quiet way of speaking, and at the same time I could not help noticing that you had difficulty in understanding what remains of my capacity for speech. However ready one is to accept the inevitable, this nevertheless puts one out of humour, and one falls into silence.
I am glad that your old man gives you a so much more satisfactory—I had almost said dignified—example of life's declining years.
Summer has come in with a rush here and without any of the usual transitional stages. We have rented a house in Berchtesgaden called Schneewinkellehen, situated in a meadow not far from the Königssee, and protected from the road by some trees. Anna flew there yesterday with Mrs. Burlingham and is expected back today.
Our dear Lün has remained a virgin this time. I am sorry that you do not think more highly of Grischa.
I have given your message to Anna.
With warm greetings for yourself and Prof. A.
Yours,
Freud