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International Psycho-Analytical Association
Central Executive
11 April 1924
London
Dear Professor,
I have for some time been meaning to send you a report of our activities in regard to the Press but the situation kept changing from day to day so that no suitable moment presented itself. I have been fighting very hard to induce some leading publisher to establish a “Monograph Series” which could function as a continuation of our previous one and have interviewed many of the leading ones. They have practically all turned down the proposal, giving as their main reason the discouraging reports from America about Psycho-Analysis being a dead subject there (!); Heinemann, on whom I had set great hopes finally decided in the negative yesterday. The only firm with whom I am still in negotiation is the Cambridge University Press, but I have very little hope there.
We have also been working with various American firms to arrange for purely American sales, and here we have had better luck. Boni & Liveright have practically agreed to buy two thousand sheets of the “Group Psychology” and “Pleasure Principle” and to issue them there. The rest of our stock is derelict, though we shall still persevere with some efforts to sell it for a small sum. As regards translations, the first volume of the “Collected Papers” has, as you know, long been printed in Berlin, though we have not yet received any actual copy of the book. Our agent seems to have misappropriated for other purposes money we gave him to pay the German printer and so we are having delay and difficulty in inducing the latter to send off the books. The same happened with the last October number of the “Journal”, but I hear that this has now just reached London. Of Vol:II. more than half is translated and revised. Of Vol:III., the “Krankengeschichten”, three-quarters is translated and revised. It would have been finished long since, but Strachey has not sent me any more material since Christmas, though he had promised to comple