Correction

In response to Sanford Gifford's “Authorship of An Adolescent Diary, 1900-04: Helene Deutsch or Christine Olden?” published in this journal (Gifford, 2001), I am baffled. Starting in 1986 I have, in reconsidering my 1985 biography of Helene Deutsch (Roazen, 1985), publicly acknowledged the mistake in attributing the diary's authorship to Helene Deutsch. I cut out the ten pages about the diary for the French and German editions of my biography, but when the second edition of the biography in English appeared in 1992 it would have cost me some $10,000 to omit the chapter about the diary and reset the whole book. Along with other new information and biographical reflections prompted by hindsight, I discussed in the new Introduction for the second edition the problem of the diary, and how I had gone wrong (Roazen, 1992).

I would have thought it unnecessary further to flog a historical dead horse. In 1978, besides the legal contracts Helene Deutsch signed with me authorizing me to publish her biography, her collected psychoanalytic papers, her first book on female sexuality, as well as her letters, she also signed a formal agreement that I publish her diary as a young girl. (Once I had had the diary manuscript professionally translated, and we discussed it, I decided it was not publishable; the contract, besides dealing with the question of royalties, had said “Deutsch releases Roazen from and waives any and all