The following communication was sent to the editor in August, 1948. The letter is published essentially as received and is self-explanatory.

Dear Sir:

An old-time psychoanalyst, having lost touch with psychoanalytic centers on account of the war, I failed until recently to read Freud's Moses and Monotheism. I therefore take some liberty in requesting the hospitality of your columns to rectify some of Freud's claims concerning monotheism… What I would like to bring forth is that, as any impartial specialist can determine, the first psychoanalytic study of monotheism was written by me (Izeddin, A.: Eine mohammedanische Legende. Imago, XVIII, 1932, pp. 189–213). There I showed—a fact admitted by Freud himself since he had the article translated into German by Schotlander—that psychoanalytic mechanisms discovered previously, and originating from polytheistic legends, could be applied to monotheistic folklore. Freud's analysis postdates mine by six years, and no