Letter from Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, September 3, 1922

3 September 1922
Salzberg bei Berchtesgaden

Dear Jones,

Mr. Sprott is a young man of excellent manners and good connections, a favourite of Lytton Strachey and friend of Maynard Keynes,1 a Cambridge student of psychology, who came to invite me for a course of lectures to be given at Eastertime (not autumn, as in your letter). I accepted for the case that I should feel so tired at Easter, that I had to give up work, and

yet fresh enough for some other enterprise, which, as you see, is only a polite way of declining. You may be sure I will continue my work as long as I can do any work. Besides we agreed that the question of language would be an obstacle in any case.

I have been deeply impressed by the unfortunate death of a dear little niece of mine, 23 years old, who took Veronal and died of pneumonia on Aug. 18th. She was the only left child of my widowed sister, the boy having been killed in war.

We intend to leave here middle of Sept. for Hamburg and Berlin.

I hope you and your family enjoy yourself in the country,

Affectionately yours

Freud