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Vienna, February 17, 1918
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Martin arrived today in excellent shape, with small contributions in the form of coffee, rice, leather, etc.
With regard to your summer proposals, I can only repeat that I would go to Hungary only in conjunction with you and Frau G., and that the nearness of the capital cannot entice us to an early get-together.
I find it quite understandable that you, too, want to make your separate peace, and I would at least like to support it with the omnipotence of my wishes. I will see Dr. Lévy and Freund on Wednesday.
If it is very important to you that your last four works are published as a book, we will have to consider carefully how this intention relates to publication in the Zeitschrift. It would have to be decided beforehand with Heller that he assures publication, because he will certainly not agree to a publication in another publishing house (in German) before the expiration of the lawful term of two years. Otherwise, you would have to seek a German publisher and leave the Zeitschrift aside.
A book that I got the day before yesterday: Ernst Simmel, “War Neuroses and Psychic Trauma,” Munich, 1918,1 should also interest and delight you very much. It originated in the field hospital at Poznan, is unreservedly on analytic ground, even though it is essentially a “cathartic” work, and it