Günter Gödde Mathilde Freud. Sigmund Freuds älteste Tochter in Briefen und Selbstzeugnissen (Mathilde Freud: Letters and Documents of Sigmund Freud’s Daughter) 2005, 429 pp. ISBN 3-7466-2144-5 Mathilde was the eldest of Sigmund Freud’s six children and the author’s decision to write this book was based on his recent discovery of a series of letters she wrote over seven years, from the age of fifteen till after her marriage. The recipient was a young man she had met two years earlier and whom her father rejected as a suitor for her on the grounds that he was not Jewish. Gödde is himself a psychotherapist and concludes with an interesting analytical study of his subject. In the letters we hear her own voice, which is that of an affectionate, lively, and articulate girl, a great reader and theatre-goer, who gives vivid descriptions of her daily life at home, her first romantic encounters and her cultural and social aspirations. She was wise and sensible from an early age, and the sage must have been proud of her.