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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich, 29 September 1910
Dear] Professor Freud,
So you are back safe and sound from the cholera country! Nevertheless I wish I could have been with you. I understand very well what you say about your travelling companion. I find that sort of thing exasperating, and still have an aftertaste of it from our American trip.
Your advice concerning the way to treat our Uncle “Euler”1 is opportune and reinforces my natural bent for philanthropy. I shall have the galleys of his manuscript sent to you; I was unable to read it because it was sent direct to Deuticke at the last moment.
Silberer's paper on mythology2 is good, except that his “functional category” for the investigation of myths has not blossomed into a thorough-going working hypothesis. I think you will recommend it for separate publication.
I am working like a horse and am at present immersed in Iranian archaeology. I think my conjecture that the Miller fantasies3 really add up to a redemption mystery can be proved to the hilt. Only the