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Baden Baden, May 22, 1921
Dear Professor,
May I start with a request? Do come here for a few weeks. Whenever it suits you. I know it is often tiresome to be somebody's guest. But one can really be at ease in Marienhöhe. Nobody is disturbed or allows himself to be disturbed. Like everybody else you will get your meals sent to your room and when you need company at meals or otherwise you can tell me and I shall eat with you. For years now I have spent the whole day there; my own house is nothing but a place to sleep in for me. The patients - there are never more than fourteen - you will not notice, nor is there a smell of iodine or medicine. And you will be in Baden Baden. I have seen much of the world, but there is no more beautiful spot than Baden Baden. I myself, a Prussian, emigrated here, and I have as little love for the South Germans as they have for me. But the scenery here is beautiful.
The only difficulty is that you will be with a lover. But I am still young in this, and I shall behave as I did in The Hague, when I was satisfied with seeing you and talking to you occasionally.
If my information is correct, you are accustomed to having your daughter with you. I hope she will be kind and accept my invitation and persuade you too. Please, give her my regards.
The words and the drawing of the repressed Ego and It have had their effect on me and will bear fruit. Thank you very much!