Rousseau describes his attempts to place the finished manuscript of the Dialogues in trustworthy hands, thereby insuring their eventual publication in unadulterated form. He reveals extremes of loneliness, bitterness, suspicion, and feelings of betrayal. A translator's note indicates that for at least fifteen years he had been obsessed with the possible theft and falsification of his manuscripts.

This issue of American Imago also contains a psychoanalytic and psychological bibliography on Rousseau compiled by E. Pierre Chanover (pp. 95-100); and a bibliography of medico-psychological and psychoanalytic studies of Van Gogh compiled by Bette Greenberg (pp. 101-107).