FREUD SIGMUND Autograph Letter Signed

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FREUD, SIGMUND. Autograph Letter Signed, in German, to Franz Selinek, concerning the thesis of his work Moses and Monotheism, arguing Moses was Egyptian and not Jewish, and citing Goethe's work on the subject. 1 page, single 8vo sheet, personal stationery. With the original envelope and with retained copies of 2 letters from Selinek to Freud. Vienna, 23 February 1938

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"I am grateful for the interest that my work on Moses aroused in you. Oddly enough, there is also an essay by the young Goethe that deals with the person of Moses and even guessed his violent end. But I hope you don't miss the fact that the actual content of my study is the claim that he was not a Jew but an Egyptian. All the rest is merely conclusions drawn from this assumption . . ."