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Grundlsee, September 5, 1930
Dear Doctor,
As you know one is not obliged to express one's thanks for congratulations, particularly if they are related to a public recognition.
Fortunately your letter contains other things, too, about which I can be pleased.
When I am back in Vienna and near my bookshelves I shall try and puzzle out the passage you singled out, shall consult Eckermann, whom I find as unsympathetic as you do, and shall write to you about it.
Meanwhile I do not understand Goethe any better than Groddeck. Will I be lucky as a Goethe critic? It seems to me hard-earned bread.
The celebration in Frankfurt is said to have been very nice. My daughter would certainly have liked to see you in the Goethehaus.
Yours most sincerely Freud