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7 July 1914
69 Portland Court, London
Dear Professor Freud,
I was very sorry to hear of your sister-in-law's illness, and hope that the next news I get will be much better.
I enclose a rather wobbling letter of Putnam's. His “Gutmu[ü]tigkeit” [good nature] is really quite a disease. I shall try to prevent him at all events from becoming mixed up with Adler, and hope to succeed. His corrected paper I will post to Rank.1
The enclosed cutting from the British Medical Journal reminds me of your remark “Es ist den wenigsten Menschen möglich, im wissenschaftlichen Streit manierlich, geschweige denn sachlich zu bleiben.”2 Still, the editor's remarks are so obviously irrelevant and polemical that the total impression on the reader must be mainly favourable to my attitude, and I regard it on the whole as good luck to have provoked such a foolish reaction on his part.
On the other side I have excellent news to report from the English psychologists, which confirms my expectation that they would prove more accessible than neurologists. The meeting at Durham was an unqualified success. The details I shall write up for the Zeitschrift. All the speakers were on our side, and one may say that the conceptions of repression and