Sigmund Freud: Briefe 1873-1939. Second, Revised Edition: Selected and edited by Ernst and Lucie Freud. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1968. 538 pp.

Since the first edition of this volume has been extensively reviewed,1 it seems appropriate to mention only the revised portions of the second edition in this review.

The main feature of the second edition is the addition of seventeen previously unpublished letters: seven addressed to Carl Koller, one each to Eduard Silberstein, Rosa Freud, Minna Bernays, N. N., Max Halberstadt, Lytton Strachey, Alexander Hérenger, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Richard Beer-Hofmann, and Marie Bonaparte. As Freud was one of the last literary letter-writers of Continental Europe of this century, one can speculate that further riches will be forthcoming in further editions.

Freud's literary inclination may be seen in his brief congratulatory letter to Beer-Hofmann on the occasion of the latter's seventieth birthday. In this letter Freud emphasizes the fact that both have lived in Vienna for many years without ever having met although, of course, each had known of the other. The same observation could be made of other literary figures, notably Arthur Schnitzler where the time-span of Schnitzler and Freud living in the same city amounted to over forty years.

An unpublished letter of Freud's to his famous pupil, Lou Andreas-Salomé, is most welcome. He mentions the seizure (Beschlagnahmung) of the tear sheets of the eighth edition to The Interpretation of Dreams. In this letter the very cordial and emotional relationship between the two is evident. The chronologically last letter that has been added to the collection is addressed to his savior, Marie Bonaparte, on January 27, 1938, prior to his emigration to England. Freud writes of his hope that the Princess will tell him when they meet that he looks fine and that he may return this compliment. He tells her that he has just undergone another operation in which a carcinoma, an 'Antherom', was removed; therefore, he hopes that he will appear to her as more handsome (verschoent).