Sigmund Freud | autograph letter signed, to Josephine Jackson, 18 July 1938

Sigmund Freud

Autograph letter signed, to Josephine Jackson,

on the threat of Nazism ("...I feel all right here or rather I would, if not the news from Vienna and the inability to help so many who being helped threw a deep shadow over our wellbeing..."), and thanking her for the financial support for the plight of refugees, in English, 1 page, 8vo, 39 Elsworthy Road, London NW3, 18 July 1938, with autograph envelope

Freud had underestimated the personal threat to him posed by the Nazi regime and had not left Vienna until 4 June 1938, two months after the Anschluss. His departure from Austria was a terrible wrench for the elderly Freud, and the knowledge that many of his friends and relatives remained at the mercy of the Nazis weighed heavily on his mind during his final months. Freud's four elderly sisters were amongst those whom he could not help; all were to die in the camps.

Dr Josephine Agnes Jackson (1865-1945) was a psychiatrist and the author of a number of popular books on Freudian principles.