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31 December 1918
69 Portland Court, London
Dear Professor,
Your letter of Nov. 10 arrived, after six weeks. It is now permitted to send letters through any friend in a neutral country.
I was so1 glad to see your handwriting again, to know that you are well, and to read your kind words to me. You know that you and ψα are everything to me, especially now when life is otherwise so drear and empty. Tomorrow, New Year's Day, I shall be 40, and life's greatest happiness is past, forever.
But do not fear that I shall lose heart for the work. That I find worth doing. In both England and America it has made great progress of late. Here it arouses general interest in every circle, and is even being taught in one medical school; the younger generation is eager to know more of it. In America several books have appeared, one good one by Frink on “Morbid Fears and Compulsions”.2 I have kept touch with Brill, who seems to be very successful both in practice and in appointments; he is evidently securing recognition in New York. I regret to send you the sad news that dear old Putnam died last month, heart failure during sleep; he was well and at work to the last.
With the many men who do not know German it will be necessary now to have a Journal in English. Jelliffe's ψα Review” is of course useless. Tannenbaum of New York arranged last summer to start a new journal, which was ready to appear when I persuaded him to postpone it till after the war, on the ground that we must have an official organ of our societies (not a private venture) in touch with the Zeitschrift (? mutual translation