Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
Berggasse 19, Vienna, December 24, [19]23. 1 1/16pp., on one small 4to sheet (8 5/8 x 6 inches; 22.8 x 14.8cm.), signed "Sigm"; lightly worn.
Addressed to Leah Lucy Weiner (Bernays) (1886-1980), Sigmund Freud's favorite niece, the daughter of his sister Anna [translated from the German]: "We don't want to let the year end without thanking you for all the tokens of your tenderness, including the last one. Of all the members of the family over there, you are really the only one whom the ocean has lost its powers of separation....I am now regarded as nearly recovered and have been given permission to take up my activities again at the beginning of 1924" [apparently referring to an early treatment for his maxillary jawbone cancer, for which he will be treated until the end of his life in 1939].