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Allenstein
11 February 1917
Dear Professor,
Soon after your letter arrived, I received the new edition of Psychopathology from Karger, which I have meanwhile read. I find it enriched in many ways. I have one small reservation to make: the examples you have taken from other authors do not all appear to be as fully analysed as your own. To give one instance: the slip of the pen on p. 102, Levitico instead of Levico, does not seem to me to be sufficiently elaborated.1 This objection only holds good for certain examples, not for those from Ferenczi, Jones, etc. A question concerning one of your own contributions (p. 96, a slip of the pen in writing about a sum of money2)! Could this not be due to the old custom of paying tithes? I should like to take this opportunity of telling you about a nice case of mixing up letters (p. 18633). I was told about it by a patient who had been in treatment with colleague Ri[klin] in Zurich. After the patient had returned to his home from Zurich, he received a letter from Ri., which the latter had addressed to the canton bank in Zurich: had they already received the sum of so-and-so many francs? And in its place a letter with medical advice had been sent off in the envelope addressed to the bank. A novel form of reminder to a patient!
If I succeed in obtaining a copy of Grimm's dictionary4 here or other relevant literature, I should like to make a small philological contribution on the same subject soon. This would represent my heartfelt thanks for your communication, which I can only express in a few words today.
You too will have been very pleased with the news from Ophuijsen.5 Van Emden used to have doubts about founding a medical association