Vienna, November 10, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19

Dear friend,

Thank you very much for your interesting reports, which are doubly welcome to me at a somewhat arid time. I will answer you immediately; sending back the material will require a free hour on one of the next few days.

On the whole, I find that these last experiments have yielded little on account of the medium's indisposition. Your organization also seems to me to be somewhat too complicated, a judgment which I would like to expand upon with regard to your attempts at encoding. I believe that, first of all, you don't need any experiments from which the basic fact that is presumed, the mirroring of the other's thoughts, is any more unquestionable than before,- rather, you need those that definitively settle the question of whether she reads or not. One should first confront and not inhibit. For example, a letter that evokes certain affects in your brother would be quite