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6 November 1922
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
Many thanks for your letter, the first you wrote me since we met at the Congress and the good news you give of your family. I am all right myself and so are my people.
As regards Money-Kyrle I can shape no judgment on his intellectual powers as long as he is exhibiting all his inhibitions and his resistance which he does like any “greenhorn” in his first weeks. His history is clear but his extraordinary reactions to it are by far more conspicuous.
Our present difficulties weigh heavily even with me. I see Hiller is not willing to stay except when his salary is raised to a height, not excessive in itself surely but out of proportion to our actual funds and his efficiency. I dont think my or Rank's behaviour has much to do with his determination. I never was anything but kind to him, but he kept aloof from me, I may say: from us, exclusively footing on his relation to you and aspiring to no personal relation to any of us. I may as well inform you, that he complains bitterly of the treatment he got from you, although I do'nt know it [in] what it consisted.
I am sorry there should exist so many points of disagreement between us at the time. I did not approve your attitude towards Mrs. Riviere nor can I find you are justified in blaming Rank or take your side in the case [of] Hiller. I am of [the] opinion that some aspects of your behaviour with people create more difficulties than you are aware of. As you ask for my