13 January 1910, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Dear friend,

I am answering you without delay in the interest of the Congress.

First a few words about the last post from America, which is very rich and might give one a feeling of triumph. Apart from Putnam's article, which you have already mentioned, I have received letters from St. Hall, Jones, Brill, and Putnam himself. Hall reports on the congress of psychologists at Harvard,1 which devoted a whole afternoon to ΨA, in the course of which he and Putnam gave the malignant Boris Sidis2 a thorough trouncing. You have probably received the same news; if not, it will give me pleasure to send you the letters. The old man, who is really a splendid fellow, writes that in April he is devoting a special number of the American Journal of Psychology to us; it is to contain your lectures, Ferenczi's paper on dream-work in