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20 October 1928
81 Harley Street, London
Dear Professor,
First I am glad to hear today from Eitingon that there are good prospects of your getting substantial relief as the result of your visit to Berlin. If good wishes had the power they deserve there would be no doubt of the gratifying result. I shall look forward to hearing good news soon.
I have been asked to write a Biography of you for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.1 If there is time I will send you a copy to correct, but feel I should be competent for even this responsible task. I wonder if you can remember when it was that Breuer first told you of Anna O? I assume it must be about 1884. After much correspondence I obtained a confidential copy of the article on ψα for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and want to be sure it is authorised by you. It is signed by your name, but it has been written by a Prof. Wolf who compiled it from your previous article (These Eventful Years).2 It has no serious mistakes, but the perspective is not good, and it is in several respects not as you would have written it. Will you reassure me that they have your permission to do this.
I am sending you a packet of reviews of The Future of an Illusion.3 There are one or two good ones, but mostly they can be described as stupid though respectful. They will at all events show you that I was right in saying that no one in England would be shocked on religious grounds.
My paper on ψα and Folklore aroused intelligent interest at the Folklore Congress in London last month.4 The resistance there mainly takes the form of scepticism about any unitary psychological explanations, after their disastrous experiences with Max Müller,5 solar myths, etc.. It seems to be my destiny to be the first to present ψα to professional audiences. I