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[Göttingen] 10.vii.31
Dear Professor Freud,
What pleasure it gives me to write to your new address—Anna had already described to me the splendour of this fairy palace. If only you did not have to change your quarters in the late autumn! Can you not stay till the winter? Perhaps even the prosthesis difficulties, which you mention in your letter, would be less intolerable there than in the Berggasse, however wintry the weather may be.
But you must not tire yourself with reading my essay—there is really no hurry about it. It makes me feel quite ashamed that you should have to write me a letter on that account. I know that my pages are in such good custody in your hands or in your room; they are so happy to be there and have no great ambitions beyond that. At three points there are some passages missing,215 to which I attach importance and which I wanted to add later. In order to insert these I must have the manuscript back here again at some time or other, because it is foolishly the only copy I possess. Otherwise I am in entire agreement with whatever you may propose to do with it, only it must not be a nuisance to you.
I would really like to have fresh news of your state of health every day. My health is satisfactory; I eat up all I am allowed and am in quite good fettle. At the moment I am engaged in a very interesting analysis of an officer with anxiety-states, who was blinded in the war.
A thousand greetings!
Yours,
Lou
As far as can be ascertained from the extracts from the first draft which was sent to Freud and which remain among Lou A.-S.'s posthumous papers, the entire manuscript had been worked over.