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Freud made only a single visit to the United States in the course of the eighty-three years of his life.* He was then fifty-three—the year was 1909. The occasion was the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
During his stay on these shores he gave an interview to Adelbert Albrecht, which has remained unprinted since its forgotten publication almost sixty years ago on page three of the Part Three on the Boston Transcript for Saturday, September 11, 1909. We have sought to transcribe the newly recovered text as faithfully as possible. Some textual and editorial comments are being reserved for the pages following the interview: pp. 340-341.
I am grateful to Dr. H. F. Ellenberger for generously making available to me a Xerox copy of the text of this interview. Professor Robert Daly of the Upstate Medical Center at Syracuse, New York also deserves my thanks for placing at my disposal the results of his personal study of a letter now on deposit in the Adirondack Museum, which Freud wrote home from the Summer Camp of Dr. James J. Putnam on September 16, 1909, five days after the interview with Albrecht. The text of the interview follows.—B. N.