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[Göttingen, about 15 May 1925]
Dear Professor,
I come to you today like a regular old misery! But it is necessary that you should learn about vital changes which have taken place in relation to Frau E., since it was you after all who asked me to undertake her analysis. You will probably already have learnt from my letter to Anna what troubles and annoyances from external causes we have had to endure in the peaceful progress of our work.
According to our agreement I had reported from time to time to Dr. H. on the so welcome and steady advances in the treatment, and for some time he replied in the tone of benevolent interest which he had adopted from the start. He seemed to be as pleased as we were at the increasing prospects of a successful cure. Indeed he wrote repeatedly to Frau E. that these improvements gave hope for the ‘brightest rewards’ (as regards her husband's attitude towards her). Later he even wrote to say that he had in mind for her just the sort of flat she wanted (which surprised me at the time, for there was no question yet of a speedy cure). The precondition for all this was of course her love for her absent husband, and to me too he built up on this basis his plans for the future. The agreement at the beginning of the analysis was after all that this last attempt at a cure should be made in order that the two partners could become quite clear as to what their mutual relationship would be as a result[….]
Herr E. after all has the three children and wanted to retain