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4 October 1913
13 Princes Street
Cavendish Square, W.
Dear Professor Freud,
The question I raised with Heller is in no sense a dissension, and I quite appreciate what you say about his character. It was simply this. Now that we hope to get more and better English abstracts I did not think it right that Rank should be burdened with the translation of all of them, as he has been doing up to now, so I thought of finding some suitable person in London to translate them regularly under my supervision, and then to submit them to Rank for a final correction. I asked Heller if the Zeitschrift could bear part of the expense entailed in this plan, and he tells me the only money available is the Honorar, which of course goes to the reviewer only. I then wrote that I would pay the whole cost if necessary, but that when the funds of the Zeitschrift are in a satisfactory enough condition they should contribute at least a part of it, to which he agrees. If I received any salary as Redac[k]teur it could be devoted to these extra expenses, but I do not wish this if it would diminish Rank's.
The other question is equally simple. I got a letter from Sophie Durer (the lady you guessed the sex of at the Totem dinner in June)1 saying that she had written twice to Heller a month previously about the translation of my book, but could get no reply from him. I wrote back saying I was forwarding her letter to him personally, and made the comment to him that his clerks had not been very attentive during his holidays. About the question of translation I quite agree with you that it would help neither