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International Psycho-Analytical Association
Central Executive
14 January 1923
London
Dear Professor,
I was very happy to get yesterday the friendly token of a private letter from you and am sure that you too prefer it to the more official task of writing circular letters. I was sorry to hear that you had not been well of late, and trust it is only some passing indisposition. My neuritis is perhaps a little better, for I sometimes get half an hour free from pain; you will remember from neurological days that neuritic pain does not belong to the pleasures of life. I started work last week, but had to break off and spend a few days at the seaside clearing off a bronchitis which was left after my Christmas illness.
Hiller was here for two evenings before going to his family and I saw him on one of these, there being a long Society meeting on the other. Your question about my impatience to hear from Rank at this critical juncture is probably explained in my circular letter of yesterday.1 We could not decide here about the future, whether to continue with the Verlag, etc., by raising more funds, unless we knew if the Verlag was prepared to continue. It is true that both Rickman and Hiller reported that Rank was tired of the Press and would have nothing more to do with it, but I hesitated to accept this as final, for nothing had altered in the situation since he announced in November his plan of continuing the Press in Germany together with the Verlag (in a letter you do not appear to have seen, for you wrote that there had been “nie die Rede davon”.2 I must now, I suppose