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Vienna, March 20, 1913
Dear friend,
It is nice that you are so charmed. Let us hope it will have a long, satisfying aftereffect.
This evening I am going to Bolzano to pick up Anna. I want to spend the holidays with her in Verona and Venice. I need a break more than ever. All
the work has gone smoothly here. With my last energies I finished the program paper for Scientia and the little thing about the three caskets for Imago.1
Frau Lou Salomé wants to spend one to two full days with you after completing her stay in Vienna. Her interests are really of a purely intellectual nature; she is a highly significant woman, even though all the tracks around her go into the lion's den but none come out.2 So, I am inquiring unofficially when you will be home and if such a demanding visitor will be convenient for you in the first days after your return. Would you be so kind as to tell me both reply and possible excuse as soon as possible?
She has become very friendly with Tausk and is very vigorously championing his cause, which is becoming difficult for me. If you see her, ask her about it and arrive at your own opinion so that we will have a point of departure as to how we should relate to him.
I greet you cordially and wish you all sunshine, green earth, and blue sea.
Yours truly,
Freud