of this, and also know precisely, that my note for the Göttingen Nachrichten [@Noether1871] in was completely independent, and I cannot understand why in 1871 neither you nor Clebsch ever mentioned that alleged communication from 1869 or why you have since then, until now, never come back to this, for example in the book Clebsch-Lindemann.[^11]

Noether’s irritation over having been left in the dark was evident, but he saw from the passage in Klein’s old letter that Clebsch and Kronecker had, indeed, discussed this matter. Furthermore, Klein had already contemplated using the Clebsch mapping as a method for reducing singularities to double points. He, therefore, felt compelled to inform Klein about what he had written regarding Kronecker’s contributions as well as his own for the report [@B-N].

> I now went through your correspondence from 1869, which confirms your message, as shown by the enclosed letter. So now I have to deal with this not only due to Bertini’s note but also owing to my report on algebraic functions.[^12]

Noether then proceeded to summarize the relevant parts of his report, in some places citing verbatim from the text itself. He then continued with a provisional assessment of the various discoveries 