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15 September 1930
Grundlsee
Dear Jones,
Many thanks for your condolences on the death of my mother. However, I will not hide from you that my reaction to this event, as a result of special circumstances, has also been a particular one. To be sure, “there is no saying”1 what such an experience may cause at deeper levels; on the surface, however, I feel only two things: the increase in personal freedom I acquired, for it was always a forbidding thought to me that she should experience my death; and second, the satisfaction that she obtained at last the deliverance to which she had earned a right after such a long life. Otherwise no mourning, as is displayed so painfully by my brother,2 who is ten years younger than I. I was not at the funeral; again, Anna represented me, as in Frankfurt. Her importance to me can hardly be increased.