S.
Febr 20th 1922
PROF. DR. FREUD WIEN IX., BERGGASSE 19
Dear Mr Bose
At last I can send you the photograph you wished for - it will come to you from Hamburg - and write the few lines which you ask on behalf of your agent. As my English is very deficient you are invited to change my expressions so as to fit your purpose:
"It was a great and pleasant surprise that the first book on a psychoanalytic subject which came to us from that part of the world (India), should prove display so great good a knowledge of Psychoanalysis, so deep an insight into its difficulties and so much of deep-going original thought.
Dr Bose has singled out the concept of repression for his inquiry and in treating this theoretical matter has provided us with precious suggestions and intense motives for further study. Dr Bose is aiming at a philosophical evolution and elaboration of our crude, practical conceptionss and I can only wish, Psychoanalysis should soon reach up to the level, to which he strives to raise it."
Having heared [sic] of your success in starting a psychoanalytic group in your country I heartily congratulate you on it. May we meet one day not too far off, as I am rather old (66 years).
Sincerely yours
Freud
Berggasse 19
Wien 1090
Österreich
20 Maresfield Gardens
700009 West Bengal
Indien
C18F16