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International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
30 November 1921
London
Dear Professor,
Thank you for your remarks about my letter on the September meeting and for your kindly wishes about our new place of residence. We are very happy here and it is well organised from the point of view of work, with much better arrangements. We have a little garden and overlook the park, the address being 42 York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, N.W.I. It is only three minutes from my room in Harley St., which I still retain.
McCann had finally refused all reparation, and Unwin suggests that the enclosed document be circulated among the leading periodicals and libraries in America. Will you please let me know at your early convenience if I may have permission to add your name to the signatories. I think we should fight the American piracy especially just now when there is every prospect that their laws on the subject will be changed; they are in a state of guilty conscience.1
My Treatment of Mrs. Philipp came to a sudden and comical end. After five days she woke up at four one morning with the spontaneous realisation that her husband had been inconsiderate of her in regard to her household difficulties, and she woke him to tell him so. Nothing that I could say could convince her that this was an inadequate aetiology of epilepsy and she regarded herself as cured. Of course she felt better and her husband wrote thanking me for the successful course of psycho-analysis!
After some months' analysis of Rickman's mother I have a chance of comparing her with his wife, much to the disadvantage of the latter, who is really quite devoid of grace and love. He has a very distorted picture of his mother, as of course you will have guessed; she is quite human.
About the Schriften.2 Most of the Metapsychology and Technique articles are now translated. Egerton promised to attack the non-medical articles in the first two volumes, but I have heard nothing further from him. The only part unallotted, therefore, is