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24 November 1907
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend and colleague,
I am writing to you today on a personal matter. In the next few days a Dr. A—– will call on you. He is a jurist who intends to study economics in Zürich, a very gifted man who has suffered all his life from a severe disorder. Treatment by Dr. Federn,1 one of my colleagues, has been brilliantly successful. He will ask your permission to attend the sessions of your society if it is at all possible, because his interest has not ended with his cure. He hopes you will not identify him to anyone as a former patient, and I believe he is looking forward to exchanging a few words with you. His sister, who has hysterical attacks, is a patient of mine; simultaneous analysis of brother and sister provided me with all sorts of valuable confirmations. Their case suggests the two forerunners of Gradiva, which you discovered. You