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Dear Friends:
The chief news here is of a business nature and I hasten to say that the result is highly satisfactory. Hiller was detained, first by illness than by business complications, but leaves for Vienna tomorrow morning. The business delays and obstructions had become impossible, and I have only waited for Hiller's visit to make some radical alternation. Our first solution, to transfer the address and some of the work to Unwin, leaving Barbara Low2 to continue with most of the correspondences, was prevented by Unwin's refusal to enter into any closer relation with us. He had much police difficulty with the Tagebuch3 some time ago and only his influence and prestige saved him. How fortunate it was that the Press did not publish that translation, which would certainly have had disastrous results. Unwin has evidently not recovered from the shock and so wishes to maintain a cool distance. Then I succeeded in persuading Barbara Low to give up the work by promising her other compensations, and we have now arranged a competent secretary, Miss Hulme, all time, the Press paying half her expenses and I the other half for my own work. She will call daily at New Cavendish St for the post and will certainly transact the business far more accurately and promptly than it has ever been done before. In addition she will be able to take much work off Hiller's shoulders, e.g. the bookkeeping, and so set him free for his other duties. She can also do the retyping of articles, etc, and he may thus be able to dispense with his Vienna secretary.
W. Bowen of Lausanne has just sent me a Psa of Alexander the Great for the Journal (in French).4 De Saussure5, who wrote a recommending letter,
mentions that there is not yet a French Psa Journal.6 We must listen for news of any attempt to start one, and be ready to enter the field the moment we think the time opportu