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94F
Noordwijk
30 August 1910
Dear Friend,
I am still just in time to send you myself my hearty congratulations on the birth of your son1 and on the completion of your fatherhood, and to express my sincere hopes for the young mother's rapid recovery. Tomorrow morning, then, off to Paris to have a look at the Leonardo,2 then on to Italy.
Your most faithfully devoted
Freud
Abraham's son, Gerd, later emigrated to London; forced to change his profession, he joined the British Army and fought during the war in India, then returned to London.
Leonardo's St Anne with Two Others in the Louvre, reproduced and interpreted in Freud's essay (1910c: pp. 111ff). Freud probably wanted to see the original to check Pfister's idea that the outline of a vulture can be seen in the white cloth around the body of Mary. (Cf. Freud, 1910c: pp. 115f., addition 1919; Pfister, 1913.)