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During the whole of the later part of the year 1895 Freud was largely occupied with the fundamental theoretical problem of the relation between neurology and psychology. His reflections finally led to the uncompleted work which we have named a Project for a Scientific Psychology. This was written in September and October, 1895, and should appear, chronologically, at this point in the Fliess papers. It stands so much apart, however, from the rest of them, and constitutes such a formidable and self-contained entity, that it has seemed advisable to print it in a detached shape at the end of this volume. One letter, No. 39, written on January 1, 1896, is so closely connected with the Project (apart from which, indeed, it would be unintelligible) that it too has been removed from its proper place in the correspondence and printed as an appendix to the Project. That Freud had also during all this period been concerned with clinical matters as well, is conclusively shown by the fact that on the very same day on which he despatched this letter (January 1, 1896) he also sent Fliess Draft K, which follows here and is in many respects a full preliminary sketch of his second paper on the neuro-psychoses of defence (1896b), completed very soon afterwards.