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Rome, Eden Hotel
21 September 1913
Dear Friend,
Many thanks for your friendly words and good news, in particular for the promise to serve our , which we must now keep going entirely on our own resources.
In the incomparably beautiful Rome I quickly recovered my spirits and energy for work, and in the free time between museums, churches, and trips to the Campagna finished a foreword to the book on totem and taboo,1 an expansion of the Congress paper,2 and the sketch of an article on narcissism,3 as well as a proof of my propaganda article for Scientia.4 My sister-in-law, who warmly returns your and your wife's greetings, sees to it that the real Rome work is kept within moderate bounds. She has put up unexpectedly well with all the inevitable exertions, and it is a pleasure to see her succumbing increasingly every day to enthusiasm for Rome and to feeling at ease.
Yesterday there arrived, post festum, a letter—assuring me of admiration from Maeder, with the addendum: Here I stand, I can do no other5 (which is well suited to someone taking a risk, but hardly to someone withdrawing from one). He will get a cool, not very detailed reply.6
The whole Roman décor will, alas! be laid aside in a week and be replaced by a more sober and familiar one.
I send you my cordial greetings and hope to hear continuing good news from you and yours.
Your faithfully devoted
Freud