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Allenstein
4 May 1917
Dear Professor,
The first priority of these lines is to bring you my very best wishes for your birthday! Unfortunately, I am not in a position this time to offer you a gift in the form of a more substantial contribution to the journals. The trifle I recently sent you is in your hands, and another may follow soon.
My duties are so exacting that they prevent me from undertaking longer papers. I have had one analytic case for some time and I may shortly send you a dream of his, of the type you were previously seeking examples of.1 I am able to report with respect to scientific matters that my psychiatric work has given me excellent proof of the correctness of your theory on paranoia. A few of the cases are so transparent that I should like to write something on them, but considerations because of my being in service would make it too difficult to publish them for the time being. As you can see, I am not completely stagnating, in spite of the war.
I impatiently await Part III of the Lectures. You are, as always, at work, putting all of us younger ones to shame. The three years of war have scarcely impeded your research, they were not very fruitful for me. Yesterday I passed the 40 mark. We both start on a new year of life at nearly the same time, and I have many wishes for you, dear Herr Professor, as well as for myself—I need hardly enumerate them.
Your news about Ferenczi's illness was a complete surprise to me. I knew nothing about it, and I beg you to tell me something more about him. And also about all your family. Those at the front will surely be well, in view of the quiet in the east and south, and the well-being of those at home depends on that in no small measure.
Did the little paper by Dr Protze go in? Is Rank not writing at all now? I heard from Reik from Montenegro. But from nobody else. I have heard nothing from Eitingon for a long time. Where is he?
Are you thinking of going to Germany in the foreseeable future? Or is the attraction