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Dear Friends:
The delay in this letter, due to a series of nightly committee meetings, enables to answer having received the latest news, including the Oct. 15 Rundbrief from Berlin. We are surely all equally elated at the brilliant news from Vienna. That the operation would be successful I was confident, but I dared not expect that the immediate effects would be otherwise than most painfully distressing. Professor has now the consoling reflection that the worst lies behind him and that every day is a step nearer to his former activity.
Last night Miss Chadwick read a very good paper, with excellent material and a few good ideas, unfortunately not well arranged. Essentially it was a study of the fate of the impulse in men to bear a child, and its consequences in his attitude towards women.
Last week I gave the opening address of the course of lectures before the Sociological Society.2 There were about 150 present, and over 50 were turned away from lack of space. Glover had a similar audience on Tuesday.3 The Sub-Committee of which I wrote last time has decided to arrange a course of weekly lectures from January, designed especially for medical practitioners and students, six to be given by Jas. Glover on the Theory of Psa and six by myself on its Practice; they are of course under the direct auspicies of the Society. The President of the Royal Anthropological Institute has invited me to read a paper on the relation of Psa to anthrolopogy, which I am to do in March.4 (This news, l. Sándor, is likely to interest Róheim5). That will open up a new circle in England, where much opposition is to be expected, especially from the Rivers school (Elliot Smith, etc).6