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2 May 1919
69 Portland Court, London
Dear Professor,
It was a pleasure to get a letter from you direct, a sign of the moving times. I shall be very glad to know what your personal plans are likely to be for the summer, whether you stop work as usual in July, if you go to Switzerland, etc.. As to the Congress, it is highly important that it should take place, even if small, and say at Interlaken if Holland is impossible for the Viennese. Otherwise we shall not have the much-needed and essential authority to start the English journal and series; for I rely on the prestige of the Congress in dealing with any difficult Americans. And it is about that that I am now chiefly writing, to ask your advice and decision on the following matter.
Last year Tannenbaum, who is a practitioner of no good standing in N. Y., asked my support for a journal of ps-a which he was quite ready to bring out, saying he even had all the necessary subscribers etc.. My first question was whether it was to be strictly Viennese, to which he answered satisfactorily and sent me articles he had written against Jung. I then begged him to postpone his plans till after the war, saying that there was already Jelliffe's Ps-A Review, that there was no more room for a private one, that in any case I hoped as soon as possible to start an official organ, for which we should unite all our forces, and promised him (perhaps rather rashly) that if he joined us his sacrifice would be taken into account; he now claims the fulfilment of this promise.