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Berlin-Grünewald
2 May 1921
Dear Professor,
Our good wishes were expressed in the Committee letter which has just gone off, and Eitingon will certainly repeat what we wanted to say when he presents you with the bust.1 This does not prevent me, however, from sending my personal and special good wishes in this letter, naturally on behalf of my wife as well. I very much regret that I do not have Eitingon's freedom of movement; otherwise, nothing would have stopped me from visiting you on the occasion of your birthday and expressing my good wishes to you personally. I hope we shall spend some harmonious time together in the autumn.
I take this opportunity of thanking you, dear Professor, for the various recommendations that were recently delivered to me by patients (including Dr Sternberg, and Lewin-Epstein).
With the “Corragio, Casimiro!” so appropriate nowadays and with kindest regards,
Yours,
Karl Abraham
A bust of Freud by the Viennese sculptor David Paul Königsberger, which was presented to Freud as a gift for his 65th birthday. Jones gave a copy to the University of Vienna, where it was unveiled in 1955 (Jones, 1957: p. 25). “Evidently, I was taken in after all; I really thought Eitingon wanted to have it for himself, otherwise I wouldn't have sat for it last year” (Freud to Ferenczi, 8 May 1921).