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22 December 1922
42 York Terrace, London
Dear Professor,
I hope you received a personal letter I wrote to you about three weeks ago?1 Hiller brought a message from you, asking, namely, if I agreed to Bose's name being inserted on the Zeitschrift. Certainly I do. Bose told me he had gladly accepted your invitation and you will have seen by now that the Journal (Nr. 4) has already carried out your excellent Berlin suggestion of printing identical names in the two organs.2
I could only see Hiller for one evening on his way through London to his home and, as he forgot to bring his books along and Rickman was unable to come, it was hardly a business meeting. Also so much depends on Rank's answer to my questions in my Rundbrief of Dec. 8.3 I asked for an urgent reply, but have heard nothing as yet. Nor has the Vienna Rundbrief of Dec. 15 yet arrived (the Berlin and Budapest ones have). Hiller himself is pessimistic about the Verlag being able to do any of the Press work, even the Herstellung [production], but I shall be disappointed if that proves to be so—though I am the only English person who has much hope of it. The outlook will be dark otherwise.
I am glad to be able to assure you personally, as well as in my Rundbrief, that your suspicion was not founded about my using Rank as a Schirm [screen] for yourself—the reverse would be nearer the truth. Any slight protests I have ever felt inclined to make about your criticisms of me I have made directly and honestly. There is nothing behind that needs to be transferred elsewhere. About you, dear Professor, my only feeling is one of regret that you should think poorly of me, but this feeling has no morbid manifestation or strength, and I sincerely hope that the need for it will before long pass away.
I saw Major Jones, the Anglo-Indian you kindly referred to me, and have sent him to Ferenczi for analysis, for it seemed to me unfavourable that he should be analysed in the same town as his wife lives in. He is a weak character a