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[Göttingen] 3.v.34
Dear Professor Freud,
I am sending this to be forwarded from the Berggasse, for I confidently hope that in April you had already succeeded in finding the house and beautiful garden in the country which you were looking for. I was very worried when Anna last wrote that there was nothing to be found; there is only a small choice available after all and the summers are so short. The best of spring is soon past.
Today I am returning to Anna—perhaps I should have done it before?—the typescript of Dorothy Burlingham's excellent paper.224 It must have been a great pleasure for you too? It was a special pleasure to me, because of the positive trend of her thought, which has always had a particular appeal to me. But I had never realized at all in the past what a strong productive capacity D. B. possessed—how splendid that you have aroused that in her! Altogether those of us women who have been privileged to sit at your feet during these ten years have been a great success and much more will be heard of them in the future.
I have already recounted to Anna what new experience this year has brought me, and how much I should like to tell you all about it in person! This youngest son of my eldest brother225 awoke in me a rush of memories of Russia and my family, and I seemed to find something in him of all my brothers. He has suffered physically from his terrible double war experience—as a very young man in the world war and then with the White Armies against the Bolsheviks—and also from the fearful years of emigration since then, after his escape from the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. But all these years of abnormal conditions have given him something of a mature and philosophical outlook on life.
Incidentally, I have made another acquaintance, whom I should like to introduce to you personally: a friend with whom I sometimes collaborate and who has been the source of much inspiration to me. He is a Kleist scholar, but quite without office or dignities, of pea