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[Göttingen] 2.1.35
Dear Professor Freud,*
It has often been the case that I have written to Anna instead of to you, so that you should not be bothered by my scribblings—but this time it is the other way round. For I have just received a letter from her in which she tells me of a particular piece of work which you completed last summer, and I feel I must let you yourself know how delighted I am to hear this news. What a blessing it has been to you, that ‘most beautiful house and most charming garden’—so you described it to me last May, and now it awaits you again for the spring, if I have understood Anna's words aright. And so I still imagine you sitting or walking about there at your work. Only it will, it seems, be a long time yet before we can see it in print? And about the content Anna has told me nothing. Nevertheless to know that it exists is a splendid piece of news for us.
That Anna too, despite all the claims on her time and attention, has actually written down on paper what she will be lecturing on to the Society in January fills me with admiration. How unremittingly her mind must have been preoccupied with this, despite all her other concerns. If only I could speak to her in person once again! And so I am writing this to you and not to Anna, but she must not think that this obliges her to write another letter to me. This is only meant as a greeting for the New Year, a cordial embrace to you both from afar.
I often think of you with your five analyses daily, and then I