27 June 1908
München

Dear Professor Freud,

First let me thank you very heartily for your exceedingly kind letter,1 which I greatly appreciated having. I am writing this a few minutes before leaving München for Zürich. After two days there I go to London for a week, and then to Paris for six weeks with Marie at the Bicêtre.2

I don't know how much you know of the Gross affair. He escaped from Burghölzli last week over the wall and came back here this week. I saw him yesterday. He seems to be much worse, quite paranoiac—shut off from the outside world—and has already started taking cocaine again. He wants to provoke a lawsuit to prove the value of psycho-analysis, to drag