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Berlin-Grünewald
3 December 1924
Dear Professor,
The day before yesterday I received your reply to the circular letter to the presidents. Up to now you are the only one to reply! I am sorry that you gave yourself so much trouble, although I was delighted to have your letter. The presidential correspondence was to be a substitute for the Committee's circular letter, and when the latter is functioning again, the first can safely be abandoned. It was important to me, before beginning the intimate correspondence again, to get the official correspondence going at least once, as there had been a decision to this effect after all.
Our statement on the question of the Committee has obviously crossed with your letter, and I hope it was gratifying for you. The delay happened because the letter had to be written twice and then circulated for signature. We shall write again about the middle of the month, if we are not instructed otherwise.
All your news interested me greatly, particularly the expert opinion you were asked to give. I received Brill's letter from Ferenczi, and I am enclosing it today. Br. is basically a decent fellow who does not have an easy time with the others in New York, but as an analyst he is not first-class and as a person he is too vacillating. What he says about Rank's destructive activity in New York is very sad! But I believe this wave will soon wear itself off.
I saw your handwriting quite unexpectedly today. Frau Orska brought me your recommendation, and I shall try to fit her into my day. A difficult case, like all poison-addictions, but probably one from which something new can be learned.
I cannot remember where the kid and the mother's milk could have been mentioned. But I must naturally not rely on my memory, which is always dangerous when one thinks one has found something new.
I have at last got hold of some clinical material for the investigation into the number seven. First of all—something that had also been forgotten!—in the dream about the w