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4 November 1923
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
Your kind bulletins about my state of health were always a bit in advance of reality. It is only in the last few days that I have been regaining my strength, have almost overcome the effect of the operation, and am now waiting for its promised success.
Today I am writing a few words of explanation about my telegram. I never thought that the American sales of the translations of my books (which ones?) could be so vital for the Press. But as you insist on it, I won't dispute it. My private opinion is that the Press has little chance of surviving and that perhaps you yourself would be quite content if you had a good pretext for proclaiming this outcome. But I will certainly not be the one to provide this pretext. That is why I telegraphed “no danger for press.”1 I am prepared to let the Press have the American rights to my books for