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Baden Baden, 21 May, 1920
Dear Professor,
I gladly offer you my forgiveness after the event, am very grateful for the publication of my piece and only regret that your idea about ‘the son clings on to the mother’, and ‘fixated’ and crucifixus did not get into the article. If it is not immodest I would like to ask you to add it in a footnote.
I have applied to be admitted to the Berlin group. It would be good to meet you sometime, and The Hague is not totally out of my reach. For years I have considered asking you to be my very welcome guest here for a few weeks. Yet one has to wrestle with a wish like this before one can express it. Surely, one is allowed to harbour wishes.
Thomas Weltlein, a psychoanalytic novel—that's simple and good. Many thanks. That you might accept the novel for publication is such a welcome piece of news that I cannot rejoice