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355F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
18 May 1919
Dear Friend,
The period of my birthday brought me a great many congratulations, dotted about all over the place from the 1st to the 7th; my own brother settled for 3 May, though he should have known better. These uncertainties contain a perfectly accurate criticism of this practice, which, like so many other things, should now be ripe for abolition. I read with much satisfaction in your letter the news about your health and your practice. What you say about S.[immel] sounds very strange. The man must at least have read Breuer when he began his work, and could not fail for a moment to recognize that he is practising the catharsis taught by Breuer. Perhaps it would be more economical to let him go; then he will never complete anything more. I have, moreover, made the acquaintance of that P. Cassian who was concerned in the business with him and Schnee. According to this witness, absolutely nothing would be left of S.'s originality.