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Vienna, May 10, 1908
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
On July 15 we are going to Berchtesgaden, where we have rented a beautiful, isolated house called Dietfeldhof. I usually stay there with my family until around September 1 and then take a short trip, which this year will probably take me to Holland and England. You are welcome at any time, whether you spend the weeks of your vacation in Berchtesgaden or whether you want to spend part of the time on the trip with me. It is understood at the outset that you will not disturb me in my work and that I won't have to take any precautions against you, but I can only look forward to discussing various things with you and not completely dispensing with meaningful association.
We can easily find lodging for you in a boardinghouse or hotel once we are there. Now and then you will take a meal with us or climb a mountain with my boys.1
In expectation of hearing from you again,
Cordially,
Freud
Jean Martin (1889-1967), Oliver (1891-1969), and Ernst (1892-1970). Martin studied law, receiving his doctorate in 1913, and from 1932 on was business manager of the International Psychoanalytic Press. In 1919 he married Ernestine Drucker (1896-1980) and had two children, Anton Walter (b. 1921) and Sofie (b. 1924). Oliver became an engineer (1915) and in 1923 married Henny Fuchs (1892-1971). The couple had a daughter, Eva Mathilde (1924-1944). Ernst studied architecture; in 1920 he married Lucie Brasch (1896-?) and had three children, Stephan Gabriel (b. 1921), Lucian Michael (b. 1922), and Clement Raphael (b. 1924). Freud's sons all emigrated to London and died without returning to Vienna. An especially close relationship developed between Martin Freud and Ferenczi. See , Sigmund Freud, Man and Father (New York, 1958), p. 109.