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Berlin-Grünewald
17 September 1924
Dear Professor,
You have not heard from me for some time even though I promised to report everything that might be of interest to you.
At present, the projected meeting in Würzburg is of prime importance for us. It promises to be quite satisfactory, and I am very pleased that the participation of a number of non-Germans will dispel the suspicion of our wishing to isolate ourselves. We already have a good selection of papers. Moreover, the question of training will be discussed in detail, as Simmel will report on the organization of our Institute with special reference to the teaching syllabus, and Sachs will talk on didactic analyses in particular. You will have heard that the latter will be giving a course on technique in London.1 We had, incidentally, to move our meeting to 11 and 12 October.
The courses for our winter term will be similar to those of last year. The only change is that Radó will give the introductory course in my place and I shall probably speak on character development to an audience of doctors and teachers.
The following little story will amuse you. A few days ago I found this announcement in an antiquarian's catalogue: “Freud, S., Entwickung der Spinalganglien bei Petromyzon, 1878.”2 I did not know this paper but remembered that I had recently come across an allusion to it in your manuscript (An Autobiographical Study).3 I have now obtained the booklet—it has the name of a Dr Langerhans in it, who died here some time ago and to whose work on a similar theme your paper refers. I found it very interesting to recognize your later style in this, your earliest paper. After I had been the only one in Ψα circles to own a copy of your dissertation on the coca plant,4 I am now, in that I possess your two earliest papers, hors de concours.
Mrs Strachey has been with me for a week. Up to now the analysis has been going well. The husband came with her for a time but will soon return to England.
I am at present dictating a thi