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Vienna, November 26, 1912
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I can finally report to you about the Council in Munich.1 Extremely satisfactory, more so than I had expected. Result, the personal as well as intellectual bonds will hold firm for years; hence, no talk of separation, defection, and the like. Adler and Stekel are manufactured puppets in Vienna.
Altogether there were, besides me, Jung, Riklin, Seif, Abraham, Jones, and Ophuijsen,2 representing Maeder. They treated our cause with an almost exaggerated obligingness. Jung from the outset wanted the matter to be considered a fait accompli and only asked to hear suggestions as to how we should get out of the situation with the publisher. I refused, but did give a pragmatic presentation, which culminated in the two suggestions that we divest the Zentralblatt of its official character and bestow it on the new organ. In the end Jung wanted to close the discussion without my having received any answer about it, and when I reminded him of that, he stated that he thought I had felt sure of their tacit agreement. In the course of the debate on practical regulations, Abraham had the idea that the president should travel personally to Wiesbaden in order to settle the matter with Bergmann, and Jung thanked him for the suggestion and promised to do so at the end of the week. Everything is in order, and the friendliness was certainly genuine, albeit purposely so. As soon as the matter has been straightened out with Bergmann, the International Journal will take over all the functions of the Zentralblatt. Both editors and publishers have turned out to be congenial.
Now to the personal background. Riklin thrashed around with arms and legs to protest against an attack by Adler. Seif was charmingly kind, and he asked me to tell you that he has now received, in the way of self-punishment, an abscess of the prostate, the organic cause of which goes back many (over fourteen) years; I then told him that something similar has happened with yo