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1 January 1911
407 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
Dear Professor Freud,
Thank you very much for your letter that came yesterday. I am eagerly looking forward to your Schreber paper. Is it to appear in the Schriften or the Jahrbuch? I have just read Brill's translation of the Drei Abhandlungen, with Putnam's excellent preface.1 The translation is decidedly better than the former one, though it leaves much to be desired. It will, I think, do more good than the previous volume, being a better Zusammenhang.2 Certainly we owe Brill a debt of gratitude for such laborious and difficult work.
The Ortsverein here is progressing excellently so far as membership is concerned. No one so far has refused to join, and we are looking forward to the May meeting with much anticipation. Putnam is busy reading several papers at local meetings. I am afraid that all other news I have to give is only personal. I hope the enclosed note, which you asked for, will be suitable.
Now I come to a big confession! Namely it will be impossible to send you the Nightmare Schrift3 as soon as I promised. I have worked terrificly hard at it, but had again underestimated the time necessary to overcome the difficulties of arranging so much material into a readable and logical connection. Even so it looks as though I will not be able to do it in less than 150 pages. I have definitely failed to compress it into the size of the previous Schriften, and must send it to you to decide how best it can be published. So far I have finished writing out the first draft of six of the twelve chapters, and have most of the rest mapped out. The work however is much interrupted. Last month I couldn't touch it for three weeks at a stretch, and now again I must lay it aside for another three weeks on account of my Chicago paper.4 I do not see how it can be finished before the end of March. My only consolation is that it will certainly contain some fascinating and strongly confirmatory matter.
You are right in telling me not to take up