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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
November 12, 1913
Dear Frau Hofrat
Please accept my sincere thanks for your efforts to let me have the paper1 I wanted and which in the meantime I have received as a present from your son. It would actually have been sufficient if you had pointed out to me where this short essay was reprinted.
The little notebook containing the handwriting of your unforgotten husband reminded me of that time lying so far behind us, when I, young and timid, was allowed for the first time to exchange a few words with one of the great men in the realm of thought. It was soon after this that I heard from him the first remarks about the role played by dreams in the psychic life of primitive men—something that has preoccupied me so intensively ever since.
As ever, respectfully yours
Freud
Theodor Gomperz's paper on Plato. When still a student Freud had translated into German one volume of John Stuart Mill's works, edited by Gomperz. It contained “Enfranchisement of Women,” “Plato,” “The Labor Movement,” “Socialism.” The book was published in December, 1880. (See note 5 to letter of Nov. 15, 1883.)