Letter from Sigmund Freud to Karl Abraham, December 9, 1921

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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
9 December 1921

Dear Friend,

I am very pleased at your news about Sachs, as happens every time I have reason to assume that the gloominess of old age makes me see things from too unfavourable a point of view. Unfortunately Sachs

has become somewhat estranged from me in the last few years, and knows that himself.

In the name of my lady of the house I invite you to be our guest when you come here at the New Year for your lecture. We have arranged a room as a guest-room, which is at present occupied by Frau Lou Andreas.1 She praises it highly, we know it not to be ideal, but still it is as good as a hotel-room—hotels are now terribly dear—and it is well heated.

With cordial greetings to you and to your wife and children,

Yours,

Freud