Noether consider writing a note that would be appended to Bertini’s reprinted article, mentioning the state of affairs in 1869 – he saw no reason why he should add any comment whatsoever:

> Furthermore, I remark that I have no real motivation to comment on Bertini’s note, since the question concerning the transformation of a curve with ordinary multiple points into another with double points is a matter of complete indifference to me – and evident, as I already said. That Bertini neglected to cite me in connection with the passage from a singular curve to one with multiple points[^15] should hardly matter; that is of course known. Probably I will send the note on to Dyck without any comment.[^16]

Klein was clearly more than a little surprised when he read Noether’s long response to his original inquiry. This response also included Klein’s own letter from 17 December 1869 containing the key passage cited above. He probably never imagined that Noether would consider writing about these oral communications in [@B-N], but in fact this official report for the German Mathematical Society went well beyond the literature found in journals and books. In particular, Noether wrote at length about Kronecker’s unpublished 