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Burghölzli-Zürich, 27 November 1908
Dear Professor Freud,
Having dropped all my duties today because my wife is about to be confined, I at last have time to write to you. I have long been meaning to ask you whether you intend to write an editorial preface yourself or in collaboration with Bleuler. A preface is the normal thing, one must after all blow one's own trumpet. I should be glad if you would let me know soon so that I can tell Bleuler of your intentions. I think of it roughly as follows: you would lead off from the standpoint of psychoanalysis and Bleuler would follow up from the standpoint of psychotherapy. The preface would be signed by both you and Bleuler. The material for the first number is complete except for Binswanger's paper. 1) Your paper; 2) Abraham: “Intermarriage”; 3) Maeder: “Sexuality and Epilepsy”; 4) Binswanger; 5) me: “The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of the Individual.”1 I am relegating the abstracts to the second number, as I want to make the first more interesting for purposes of publicity. The abstracts wouldn't help much, despite their usefulness. I reckon the first number will run to about 250 pages, which together with the second would make about 500 pages in all. That's a really imposing volume. For the second number