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[Göttingen] 4.v.31
Dear Professor Freud,
I am addressing this to the Berggasse, because Anna said that she thought you would be home again by now. But even if you are home, you will not be free from pain and not without physical discomfort,* and this thought is quite intolerable. One would simply like to set to and find a scapegoat on whom one could vent one's wrath. I realize how childish this sounds, but there is a limit to all things. The fact that the immense sum of human love and gratitude which you have evoked in the world cannot conjure up this little scrap of physical comfort which we all so ardently long for you—that is what so utterly shatters me. I simply cannot write a proper birthday letter.
The good kind words of your message in Anna's letter reduced me to tears. Today there is nothing that I can say. My thoughts go out to you in silence; but you know this already.
Yours,
Lou