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International Psycho-Analytical Association
27 August 1929
London
Dear Professor,
I was thrilled to hear about your new booklet and of course wish to enter at once a claim for the translation.
What you say about Dr. Wilson surprised me and gives a very puzzling problem. I saw her recently (before getting your letter) and had a definite impression of an honest person. She is a woman of sixty-eight and quite an interesting personality. She said she had been analysed by you for four or five months in 1920 and had worked with Anna, I think in January or February of this year. It is true that Americans sometimes regard two or three conversations as constituting “working with”, or even “conducting a control analysis”, but I was puzzled that Anna could not remember meeting her at all.
I did not gather from Simmel and Spitz1 at the Congress that the situation