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Vienna XIX, Hohe Warte 46
May 28, 1933
Dear Pfister
My warm thanks for your letter of condolence on Ferenczi's death. I deserve it, for the loss is very distressing. It was not unexpected, of course. For the last two years our friend had not been himself; he suffered from pernicious anemia with locomotor ataxia and psychologically had changed very much; he died finally of asphyxia. We will continue to remember him as he has been for the past twenty years.-I believe some of his achievements, his Genital Theory,1 for instance, will keep his memory alive for a long time.
I was very pleased to hear such good news of you. Our horizon has become darkly clouded by the events in Germany. Three members of my family, with their families, two sons and a son-in-law,