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Dear Friends:
I have to change my consulting room soon and do not know my next address, so it will be safer to send letters to my house, 42 York Terrace, London, N.W.I.
Brill writes that he is coming to Europe, but does not expect to stay so late as the Congress, as his lectures begin in the middle of September; I have pressed him to make a special effort. Bose also writes that no one is coming from India. Next week Flügel and I will discuss the programme. I suppose we may put down Professor for »Thema vorbehalten«? Abraham kindly sent me a picture of the Congress arrangements. I think they are excellent and quite agree with every point except one, which I should like to submit for discussion. He allows the Monday and Tuesday all day, with Wednesday morning also, for scientific papers, i.e. 18 hours, and leaves the Business meeting till 4 on Wednesday, just before the banquet. I find that the amount of scientific papers would be too tiring and that there is hardly room for the business, of which there may be a great deal and which is the only opportunity for speakers to blow off steam by discussion. What do you think of having the business on the Wednesday morning, continued if necessary in the afternoon? I should be glad, my dear Abraham, to accept your suggestion that the programmes be printed in Berlin; you will by now have received the cheque from Flügel.
You will have heard of Tridon, the N.Y. swindler.2 McCurdy, who is spending the summer in England, says he should not last long, for he is sure some enraged husband or father will shoot him. Tridon sent me this week the enclosed letter, to which I shall of course send no answer. He will save us the trouble of circularising America with my notice (J.114) and will know better than I do where to send it. Isn't he a insolent rascal?
May I be allowed to say a word about Abraham's warmth about Rank? It is certain that Rank's comments could not have been personally intended in the sense Abraham thinks. We must by now all