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Tegel, September 20, 19281
Dear Doctor!
I am not answering your letter until today because in the meantime I had sent it to the sister-in-law of Yvette Guilbert (the mother of my friend Eva Rosenfeld in Vienna),2 in order to request the necessary recommendation from her. I have just learned that she has taken care of everything, has written one letter to Yvette Guilbert and one to Paris, to Mrs. Rogers. So, everything is in order.3
I am very much looking forward to your visit here, there will be much to talk about; just now, new difficulties are emerging again with the Americans. I don't see how a row will be avoidable at the next Congress. In any case, I haven't forgotten what kind of a role you played for me after the last Congress.
Papa is now at the height of his treatment and is under a great strain from it. But the unheard-of good care and nourishment that he has here makes up for a great deal. When you come, we will already know something about the results; now one can't say anything at all yet, there are all kinds of provisional arrangements.
Many kind regards and auf Wiedersehen!
Yours,
Anna
The letter was written by hand by Anna Freud. In the blank space on the page, below the signature, are written, in pencil and in a different handwriting (Ferenczi's), various partly illegible headings, signs, and mathematical calculations in a discernible order, for instance: “Hermann—superego?—homos heteros—identification—love—ego, not superego—ego-ideal remains—Eisler—sublimation symptom.”
Yvette Guilbert (1867-1944), renowned French songstress, much admired by Freud. She was married to the Viennese biologist Max Schiller. Her niece Eva Rosenfeld (1892-1977) had been a close friend of Anna Freud's since about 1924. She was co-initiator of the Experimental School in Hietzing, a (gratis) analysand of Freud's (1929-1931), and a co-worker in Simmel's sanatorium in Tegel. Her relationship and analysis with Melanie Klein (1938-1941) further cooled the a