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26 May 19071
Dear colleague,2
Many thanks for your praise of Gradiva. You wouldn't believe how few people have managed to say anything of the kind; yours is just about the first friendly word I have heard on this subject (No, I must not be unfair to your cousin (?) Riklin). This time I knew that my work deserved praise; this little book was written on sunny days3 and I myself derived great pleasure from it. True, it says nothing that is new to us, but I believe it enables us to enjoy our riches. Of course I do not expect it to open the eyes of our hide-bound opponents; I long ago stopped paying attention to those people, and it is because I have so little hope of converting the specialists that, as you have noticed,