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13 July 1911
407 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
Dear Professor Freud,
In response to the solicitations of various friends I have acquired the art of type-writing, which should make my letters easier to read. In the first place let me thank you warmly for so kindly sending me the new edition of the Traumdeutung. It came only last evening and already I have seen so many new things in it that I had better not start commenting on it if I am to write the other things I want to, but I warn you that you are in danger of getting a long letter from me about it as soon as I shall have read it through carefully. I was very proud to find myself mentioned in it.1 In a recent number of the Journal of the American Medical Association Dercum, of Philadelphia, has an absurd article on your theory of dreams, which he controverts by the penetrating observation that it is contrary to the universal experience of mankind.2 I wonder it didn't occur to him that aeroplanes are also. In the same number Lloyd has an extremely vulgar attack on my Hamlet article, which he says could only have been written by a sexual pervert;3 the only argument he brings is to the effect that Hamlet knew who was his mother, while Oedipus did not, therefore the two plays can have nothing in common. To such shifts are our opponents reduced in their search for disproofs! On the other hand you will be glad to learn that two very excellent reviews have appeared. One, in the British Medical Journal, is an exceedingly fair-minded and sympathetic review of