Eden Hotel, Rome
September 21, 1913

Dear Friend

Many thanks for your friendly words and good news, especially for your promise to serve our periodical, which we will now have to run entirely on our own means.

I have quickly recovered my spirits and zest for work in the incomparably beautiful Rome, and in the free hours between visits to museums, churches, and the Campagna I have managed to write an introduction to the book about totem and taboo, an extension of the lecture given at the Congress; and a draft of an essay on narcissism;1 in addition I have corrected the proofs of my propaganda article for Scientia.2 My sister-in-law, who warmly returns your and your wife's greetings, sees to it that the actual task of exploring Rome is kept within moderate bounds. She herself has taken all the inevitable exertions unexpectedly well in her