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1 January 1908,
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend and colleague,
I won't write much, for fear that having to answer me will be a burden to you. Just a few points that may be of practical importance.
A big Vienna publishing house, Freytag-Tempsky (IV. Johann Straussgasse 6) is trying hard to acquire “us” and may take over the Gradiva series.1 They are making great promises. I wanted to inform
you of this development. It is not a purely Austrian firm, but German (Leipzig).
Dr. A—–, who called on me today, told me that Dr. Frank at Burghölzli has been telling a story about a woman patient who became infected with gonorrhea at the age of 47, then learned all sorts of horrors from me, and since then has been incurable. I can't for the life of me remember a patient with such a history; A—– was unable to provide any other distinguishing features. Since it is not at all impossible that the patient or physician has been telling lies, please let me know if you have heard any more and can help me to identify the patient. If so, I shall certainly supply the necessary explanations.
My wife was most pleased at your wife's New Year's greetings from Schaffhausen2 and asks me to thank her kindly.
Here's to our work in 1908!
In friendship, yours sincerely, DR. FREUD
Heller had published the first two volumes of the Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde, but Freud was dissatisfied with his slowness and was looking for another publisher; eventually Franz Deuticke took over with the third volume. See below, 68 F.