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424A
Berlin-Grünewald
16 October 1923
Dear Professor,
During the last few days Rank, Lampl, and Deutsch1 have virtually vied with each other in keeping me informed about your state of health.2 Lampl came back today and gave me a full report. This is indeed a day of joy, and now that I know that there is every cause for optimism, I want to wish you and your family wholeheartedly the best of luck. I do not tend towards pessimism, as you know, and I was therefore able during these anxious days to hold on to the impression of undiminished vitality that I had so recently observed in you. And the confidence I felt did not deceive me. But I breathe more freely again now that I know that *** it my hope has become a reality. From the reports it appears that you are not suffering too much from the direct consequences of the operation. Thus all of us who are attached to you may permit ourselves to enjoy the great gift that fate has granted us! I have been asked by my wife, my daughter, and my son to convey all their good wishes to you.
It is customary to send convalescents of all ages pictures to look at and pleasant things to read. That is why I am sending as “printed matter” a number of new Egyptian photographs, which may give you pleasure already now or at any rate later on, and I should also like to tell you about some pleasant things.
Last night—I could not report any more about this in the circular letter—Sachs began his course on psychoanalytic technique; the rest of us do not start for another fortnight. He had an audience of about 40, a very satisfactory number for a course of this kind. My own course of introductory lectures, which had 80 to 90 participants last autumn, will no longer be held in the limited accommodation of the polyclinic, but across the road in the Zentralinstitut für Erziehung und Unterricht [Central Institute for Education and Instruction].