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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
April 12, 1933
Dear Dr. Weiss
The Italian “Moses”1 has given me particular pleasure. My relationship to this work is something like that to a love child. Every day for three lonely weeks in September of 19132 I stood in the church in front of the statue, studying it, measuring and drawing it until there dawned on me that understanding which in the essay I only dared to express anonymously. Not until much later did I legitimize this nonanalytical child.
One of the consequences of my failing health difficult to bear is that I can no longer come to Rome (the last time was in 1923)….
With cordial greetings
Your
Freud
Weiss had translated Freud's essay into Italian. See letter of Sept. 25, 1912.
It was actually in 1912.