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International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
25 November 1920
London
Dear Professor,
I am glad you approved of my letter to Brill, and will let you know as soon as there is any response.
So your keenness detected the slight note of irritation in my letter, which I had hoped I had succeeded in suppressing altogether. It was a reaction to a number of points in Rank's dictatorial manner and conduct of late which have given me a little difficulty in dealing with internally, I hope with success. As Abraham remarked in his last letter, we must make great allowances for the strain Rank is under at present and for the impatient restlessness of his disposition, which has its advantages as well as its disadvantages.
I think it is an excellent idea to reward Rank with some honour for the work he has done in starting the Journal, though I hope he will be relieved of this when Hiller is in Vienna, and I have been planning to get both him and Ferenczi elected as Honorary Members of the British Society. There is much to be said also for your idea of making him one of the assistant editors of the Journal, though I am not quite sure that it would be wise policy to increase the foreign associations of the Journal just yet until the Americans are selected and our basis more securely established, for there has been much criticism in the public here of the foreign appearance of the get-up of the Journal (foreign type of printing and errors, etc.).
As for the Kola business I have not heard any valid arguments in favour of the combination, but I have found a good one for myself—namely, that