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30 March 1910
407 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
Dear Professor Freud,
First let me thank you for kindly sending me the Drei Abhandlungen. It was all the more welcome in that I lent my copy to a friend in England and never got it back, and have not been able to get another copy since it has been out of print. In fact I recently had to get Brill to lend me his so as to look up some points. The added footnotes were very interesting,
especially the one on homosexuality;1 I suppose you had good reasons for not re-writing the book, but one naturally regrets you didn't think fit to add more.
Your letter and kind remarks were exceedingly welcome; many, many thanks. Your encouragement is especially valuable to me for many reasons; first the obvious one of pupil and master, then the fact that I am more responsive than initiative by nature and only work under an external personal stimulus, then further that in my work I am very isolated, for almost all my friends and relatives have used their strongest influence to dissuade me from undertaking “such dangerous work” (sexual). It was a big break with them all for me to continue it alone, for at that time I had no personal help from you and the school, [and had]2 having various internal troubles, and only my intense conviction that your work was profoundly true and important carried me through. Fortunately things are now in smoother water, chiefly owing to you personally, so you see I am both grateful to and dependent on you.
I hope you are pleased with the result of the Congress. I hope to hear an account of it from Jung. I did not hear of his scurrying visit till it was over. He is getting quite a “world-trotter”. (Now, why have I written “world” instead of the ordinary phrase “globe-trotter”? The analysis doesn't come to me straight off; I must try again later).
It is delightful to hear that your health is again all right, and I sincerely hope the family trouble will soon be past.
It is exciting news that you are writing on Da Vinci. Wh