FREUD SIGMUND: (1856-1939) Austrian Neurologist & Founder of Psychoanalysis. Freud formulated the Oe...

FREUD SIGMUND: (1856-1939) Austrian Neurologist & Founder of Psychoanalysis. Freud formulated the Oedipus complex and developed his theory on the Analysis of Dreams. He lived and worked in Vienna until 1938 when he escaped the Nazis and went to the United Kingdom where he lived in exile the last year of his life. An excellent A.L.S., `Freud´, on one side of his personal printed correspondence card, Vienna, 14th April 1931, to [Dr. Heinrich Meng?] in German. Freud writes in bold dark fountain pen blue ink `Dear Sir, the book of R[ichard] Hughes I received is the same you´ve read under the title ''The Innocent Voyage. Yours sincerely´. Accompanied by an apparently unrelated envelope hand addressed by Freud to Dr. Heinrich Meng in Basel and postmarked at Vienna, 18th May 1936. Two small file holes to the upper edge, repaired to the verso, and not affecting the text or signature. VG, 2 £1500-2000 Heinrich Meng (1887-1972) German Physician & Psychoanalyst. Richard Arthur Hughes (1900-1976) Welsh writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. His work A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) was initially titled The Innocent Voyage.