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11 May [1922]1
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
This letter I might have written you some weeks before, only I could not as to the habitual work or overwork was joined the effect of some slight indisposition and the loss of time by the bustle about my birthday, Eitingon's visit etc. Also I had cleared my mind by that card which confessed my being wrong on your account.
The conference with Rickman, Strachey, Rank, Hiller and Mrs. Riviere proved to be a failure in a certain sense. I had wanted to learn what the cause of the incredible delays in the publication of the two essays2 was and I could not find it out. My first suspicion, that the fault lay with you I had to take back and to apologize to you. It became evident that a great part of the causation had its roots in the “Kinderkrankheiten” [growing pains] of the Verlag and the Press, no rooms, not enough types and no fixed arrangements with the printers, but these obstacles are now nearly all of them removed and have been so for some months. This factor does not seem to cover the effect. I am now inclined to think that Hiller is not very efficient on the whole and I know that Rank is managing him with great care and caution because he is not easy to manage. Yet I do not wish to sow discord between you and him, I am willing to drop the matter and to give up my attempts to interfere3 with the activity of the Press. I dont