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The International Psycho-Analytical Press
30 May 1924
London
Dear Professor,
As you may imagine I have had an extremely busy time on returning from my holiday. We had a very interesting time alternating between charming cities like Bergamo, Verona and Conegliano on the one hand and lakes and mountains on the other.
At last I am happy to record some satisfactory progress in regard to the Press affairs. I think I told you in Vienna that the arrangement I made with Rank at Salzburg was that we should continue our negotiations in London on the previous lines but not start any fresh ones with other firms until we had heard whether Rank had been able to effect anything with American firms. After a good deal of bargaining we have come to a definite agreement with the Hogarth Press here.1 They buy from us the stock of six books already published (you doubtless know that 2000 copies of your two books in this series have already been disposed of to Boni & Liveright), and undertake to publish in the same series translations of the “Sammlungen”. The first volume of these, which was printed last winter in Berlin, they are acquiring from us at cost price. Future books they will acquire individually from the Verlag according to arrangement. We have thus achieved our main purpose, which at times seemed very hopeless, of securing the continuity of our Monograph Series (The International Psycho-Analytical Library) and as this will continue2 under my editorship, we have a guarantee as to the quality of the books appearing in it. I have immediately notified Rank of our success and suggested to him that Boni & Liveright might care to negotiate with the Hogarth Press about acquiring