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Paris, Wednesday
November 4, 1885
My beloved darling
Well, the great news is that yesterday on arriving rather late at the Consultation Externe (I am getting lazy and easygoing these days), I noticed in the audience a narrow, pale skull covered with thin, fair hair which nodded to me in recognition and which turned out to be that of my friend in cerebro Darkschewitsch1 from Moscow. Let me tell you the previous history of our relationship: when I entered Meynert's laboratory to do research on the gold method, I found there an American, Mr. Barney Sachs, a particularly amiable and intelligent man (I learned later that he is a Jew), and my Russian Darkschewitsch. The latter attracted my attention by his melancholy disposition, typical of Ruthenians and Little Russians, but I got to know him better only after I had discovered my Method. Sachs translated my paper into English for Brain, or rather he corrected my translation, and D. offered to translate it for a Russian journal, which he did. He slowly began to confide in me and I discovered in him a quiet and profound fanatic. He was averse to all distractions and his soul was absorbed in the motherland, religion, and brain anatomy. His ambition was to write the first book on brain anatomy in the Russian language. Dissatisfied with Meynert, he went to Leipzig, to my rival Flechsig.2 He wrote to me once from there, but I never got an answer to my