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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19

Dearest Lou,*

I thank you very much for your vivid account of your activities in the medical world and of the people with whom you have come into contact. What you write about the harm done by Stekel and the lack of seriousness and respect is of course absolutely correct. But who can seriously hope to rival Stekel, since he is made of the same inferior material as the mass of his readers? So long as one has not got the right to exterminate such people with official approval, one must just put up with them.

It is only a matter of weeks until the meeting in Salzburg, by which time I hope to be really out of the doctors' hands, even though no longer quite what I was. I am determined this time not to go through the whole business myself, instead we will go for a