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[Berlin] 2.ii.25
Dear Professor,
The matter is now arranged and I am truly grateful to you. I have both your kind letters before me, for the first one, the vagabond letter, decided to arrive after all, mysteriously belated.
During the time Dr. H. spent here there were so many negotiations and complications that I only yesterday succeeded in having a proper analytic hour with Frau E. She objected and protested so much about her lodging and companions that it looked at one moment as if it was all going to come to nothing; but then a satisfactory contact was established between us. It now turns out to have been for the best that we met here in the first place. I could not have arranged things in Göttingen quickly enough, whereas here I have had the assistance of Eitingon, Dr. Jeckel181 and Dr. H. But gradually I will be able to make the necessary arrangements from here for Göttingen, despite the distance of our house from the centre of the town.
Dr. H. brought with him a good deal of material for me, including some really priceless letters of Stekel. When one reads them, one cannot help assuming that he must now be in a condition of inner demoralization; it is not only the result of ‘mistakes’ in the treatment or such like. Incidentally, the patient, who is so thoroughly used to concealing things, immediately ‘pinched’ something from me: although she was alone only a moment—a minute and a half, at the