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International Psycho-Analytical Association
Central Executive
12 August 1924
London
Dear Professor,
I greatly appreciated your kind letter about the translations. As you must know, the Press has cost me enormous labour in the past few years, as well as nearly £1000 personally, but I have the satisfaction of feeling that a solid start has been made in establishing a nucleus of trustworthy psycho-analytic literature in English. I need hardly tell you also that any credit coming to me should be widely shared. Mrs. Riviere, for example, has done at least as much work as I have and has proved throughout a most loyal co-operator. She has been especially invaluable in attending to details in a way that only a woman can, and I feel nothing but esteem and gratitude towards her. Strachey also, though terribly slow, has improved in his work so much that he now ranks as easily the best translator here or in America, nuch [much] better than either Mrs. Riviere or myself. The only member of the trio with whom I feel any dissatisfaction is Dr. Rickman, who is proving very untrustworthy, but I presume this is due to his special morbid temperament; in fact, I sometimes feel that there may be a psychotic trend present. He will probably be more and more replaced by James Glover, who in any case would appear to be my natural successor.
You will be most amused to hear that at the annual Druid festival in Wales—the National Eisteddfod1—the chief bard received his prize for a poem dealing among other things with psycho-analysis. So you see your work is penetrating even into remote fastnesses.
I had an interesting talk last week with Ruth Blumgart, who appears to be repeating Loe's history—I hope with happier results. Her brother-in-law—Leonard—wrote