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Baden Baden, Werderstr. 14, 4.1.1924
Dear Professor,
My reply to your kind letter to my wife is the news that the translation of Everyday Life into Swedish is ready for printing. We are taking the manuscript with us on our trip to Sweden, where my wife will ask a Swedish expert to look at it, and will then hand it over to the publisher. Then he will start immediately on the translation of the lectures and wants to ask the publisher to send her a copy of the latest edition for the purpose. As far as I can judge the translation is good, i.e. it follows strictly the words of the original.
We are going to Sweden to visit our relations there, at the same time I am to give some talks in Stockholm and Gothenburg. I have also put myself down today for a paper for the congress: ‘On the future development of psychoanalysis’, which I shall prepare myself for this time since it is to deal with fundamental questions. If I were to rely on the inspiration of the moment for it, it wouldn't be what it should be.
Herr von Roeder, whose essay on Aristotle is in the latest number of Imago, would like to take part in the congress. I have written to Berlin for a ticket, but I wanted to let you know about it at the same time.
My wife will accompany me to Salzburg. Perhaps she will get a different impression there from the one she got in Berlin. In fact for some years now I can hardly bear to be in Berlin.
While translating, my wife made a discovery which may be of value to you, if you haven't thought of it already. The observations of a completely impartial person are always of value. The matter in question is the number 246790. Since you have