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[Göttingen, mid-July 1931]
Dear Professor Freud,
Your letter came yesterday evening (just after I had posted mine to you). I am beside myself with joy. What more can I wish for? I am so delighted that you found no objection to make to my work, which I might then have found impossible to alter, and that you then wrote to me straightaway and in your own hand such kind, kind comments. I am myself so very, very much aware of the half-success of this attempt to express my feelings, but I have felt such an urge to do so for many years now.
I am of course in agreement with whatever you propose: to appear in book form and not first in Imago. Also the subtitle ‘Open Letter’ etc. appeals to me very much. Only the main title must remain as it stands, i.e. ‘Psycho-Analysis’ must not be substituted for ‘Freud’. The whole essay is really contained in this one word; it has been wholly derived from the man who bears this name; what it would have been as purely factual knowledge without this human experience I simply cannot imagine (I am a woman, after all).
It is annoying, but I must unfortunately have the manuscript back once again, in order to make some additions to which I attach importance.
Oh, what a joy it is to me that you have approved my stammering attempts!
I have written this in great haste and with what gratitude!
Yours,
Lou