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9 February 1924
81 Harley Street, London
Dear Professor,
I trust there will be general agreement about the desirability of a Committee meeting before the Congress,1 i.e. on the Saturday. I see that Abraham has asked you whether this should take place in Salzburg or Vienna. If the latter proves more convenient to you, you know we should of course all fall in with the idea. I do not mind saying, however, that I hope on personal grounds that the former would prove as convenient to you, for to us (my wife is coming too) to travel from Salzburg to Vienna and back would [be] a rather tiring addition to a long and expensive journey (through Switzerland), not to speak of possible complications with her relatives in Vienna (staying only a few hours), and it might well mean giving up work a couple of days earlier. I am sure you will not mind mentioning these considerations, which I do only in the event of your hovering between the two decisions.
You will not have been surprised at the Rundbrief news about the Press.2 The decision was greatly overdetermined. The finances had been allowed to get into a muddle, and I called a company meeting and compelled Rickman to elucidate them, when, as I feared, they proved to be much more precarious than he had assumed. Reece, our agent, has got into a muddle in his sexual life, with the result that he neglects matters badly, constantly changes his address, and may well have to leave the country.