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Dear Friends,
A letter from Berlin dated July 21st and one from Vienna dated August 1st have arrived. I did not write on August 1st because there was no news.
The most interesting news is that Brill announces he is crossing to Europe at the end of this month to visit Professor and myself.2 Let us hope that a slow conversion will have correspondingly lasting effects.
There has been a stupid muddle about the question of American editors.3 When I wrote to Stern saying that Professor had accepted two of the three names sent from New York (Brill and Frink) but could not accept Farnell and begged him to get their President, Ames, to recommend another name, he replied that it was a matter for the Society and so could not be decided until that meeting in September. He also said that Brill had assured him that in my letter last November I had told him (Brill) that the New York Society had the sole decision. This is the reverse of the truth, for Professor read my letter before I sent it, and I enclose a pertinent extract from it herewith. In the meantime Ames had written to me asking for general information, and in my reply to him I begged him to make some decision himself, both so as to avoid personal feeling at a meeting, and also to enable us to print the names on the first number of Volume 2 of the Journal. When Frink was in London, I also arranged with him to write Ames similarly, and a cablegram has just arrived from him saying that Ames recommends Oberndorf. I know that Oberndorf is acceptable to Professor, so have instructed Hiller to insert all the names on the title pages.
James McCann, the pirate of Professor's alleged book on Dreams4 has offered to pay Unwin 250 dollars provided that the latter will countenance
the continuation of the piracy. I refused to accept any such arrangement on b