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5 February 1922
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I have to thank and to answer you for a lot of letters regarding various affairs, first on Mrs. Riviere, whom I expect on the 25th of Febr.; you may imagine how little charmed I was by the prospects opened in your letter.
I will spare myself any further remarks on the subject as you seem to have suffered sufficiently for your mistake. But let us hope that all these adventures belong to the past.
If Dr. Will Brown comes to Vienna and attempts to have a conversation with me it may prove impossible to avoid him or may appear too haughty, but I am warned and will know how to manage him.
In the Unwin-Tridon affair I am with you without any restriction. I will not accept anything but the withdrawal of the book and will not forgo publishing the scandal quite independently whether the two publishers go along with us or suffer themselves to be bribed by the promise of royalties. I am astonished besides that they should put any expectation on these royalties as McCann is sure to cheat them there the same way as they are cheating their own authors, by not confessing the true numbers of copies sold.
Mr. Armstrong did not yet call on me. Boven's manuscript, good, rather seicht [shallow], is accepted for Imago.1
I clearly see that nothing can be done for Gradiva but I am anxious the press should not delay the translation of the Sammlung, or we could get into new scrapes with the American robbers.
Your Glossary is frequently consulted by Anna and Rickman and when the Strachey's have recovered from their Grippe I am sure they will give their attention to it. I cannot be of much use for it.
I will send you back the Strachey's at Eastertime. Blumgart is leaving here middle of February, you will see him in London. His analysis was excellent, as far as it went, that is to say not deep enough, owing to the short time he spent on it. The next to go is Oberndorf, on Febr. 25th, he has got nothing at all out of his analysis, being an absolut