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8 March 1911
407 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
Dear Professor Freud,
The Hamlet Heft arrived this morning, and has given me much pleasure to read through. I feel quite proud. I do not know how to thank you enough for the great personal trouble you have taken over it; Rank, in a letter I got today, told me something of it, and besides I think I know enough German to detect your hand in the beautiful phrases with which you have clothed and polished my work. Believe me that I am deeply grateful and appreciative.
Rank seems to be grandly active in his work. You must be proud of him as a disciple. He tells me that we may expect a third edition of the Traumdeutung in May. That will be a great treat.
I have told my London agents to send you some plays of Bernard Shaw,1 and hope they will arrive safely. I do not expect you to read them all, except possibly on a holiday. The ones most worth reading are, in order: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Getting Married, Caesar and Cleopatra, and the Devil's Disciple. The first (notably the Hell Scene in it) I can specially commend to you. Please do not take this little present as an expression of my gratitude to you, for that cannot be shown in such a way as this, though perhaps it may serve as a memento of my first contribution to your work, a contribution which I sincerely hope will be followed by other more worthy ones.
Things in general are going well in America. I constantly get letters showing interest and advancement in the work. You ask me about Brill's health. All I know is that he had some obscure trouble, with high intraocular tension, in the eyes, and that it is now again quite well. It is to be hoped that he will get no recurrence. I am at present negociating with him and Jung about the organisation in America. I think there should be a main