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Dear Friends:
As we arranged, the Circular Letters appear irregularly according to needs. The occasion of this one is the receipt of Congress programmes from Eitingon and Rank. I agree to both. In order to save time I left the detailed arrangement of the programme to Eitingon and Abraham, also because the former could get the Berlin list quicker than I can (it has not been sent to Flügel or me yet). The only point I have to comment on is that, as I said before, I do not think we should leave Abraham out from the list of chairmen in any circumstances, and that I think Oberholzer has far more claim than Frink, who has no official position at all in New York. I would advise that this question of chairmen be left till the preliminary meeting on Sept. 24th, to which Flügel is issuing formal invitations.
Rank's hammer has once more fallen, this time on London, and, as it seems to me, very unfairly. It is not true that F[lügel] left no representative to do his work. He is back in England now, but he left me and I have discharged his duties. There has been no neglect from his absence. Rank says that Eitingon did not receive the Vortragsanmeldungen from London »ordentlich«, whatever that may mean. We sent in the complete list, I think alphabetically, and I do not see how we could send in Anmeldungen we had not ourselves received, or invent them. The facts are simple enough. Although members had been asked in the Journals to send in the title of their papers before July 1st, knowing from experience how careless individuals are apt to be in such matters, Flügel sent a letter to each secretary asking him to be responsible for informing the Central of the papers coming from their group. Every secretary did this except Berlin and Vienna, so that we were able to send to Eitingon in July a complete list with these two exceptions. Abraham tells me that the Berlin list was prepared before he left town, and I surmise that Eitingon's letter to London containing it was lost in the post. T