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21 November 1939
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[Ludwig Binswanger to Martha Freud]
My dear Frau Professor,
I was so very glad to get your letter and am deeply grateful to you for this sign of personal affection. I am happy to know that it pleases you that my friendship and respect for your dear husband also extend to you and your family. As far as I am concerned, that goes without saying. But your dear husband, too, lives on for me, as vividly as ever. I was very sad to learn that towards the end he suffered so much that you had to look upon his death as a release.
It occurred to me that, one of these days, we might consider publishing a collection of your husband's letters, so that the world may also come to know his purely personal side. I myself have only come to understand him properly through some of his letters. I know that he was extremely reluctant about the publication of purely personal