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5 November 1924
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I am sorry to hear that you disapprove of several passages in my contribution to These Eventful Years. If you indicate these passages to me, perhaps I can send you the German text, so that we can divide the blame between author and translator. But I think it will not be worth your trouble.
Abraham has not written to me about the choice of venue for the Congress. Perhaps he will still do so. Perhaps he thinks, and rightly so, that this choice is of little interest to me, given that my attendance at the Congress is rather unlikely.
I have just heard today from Mrs. Riviere how far along you are with preparing the Collection, and how much work it has been for all of you. Naturally, the volume or two volumes will be welcomed here with great satisfaction.
Now an official report. Eitingon and Ferenczi were here on 31 October and 1 November in order to confer with me and Rank, who has returned at last, about the necessary changes in the Verlag and Zeitschrift. It was decided that Rank will resign from his post as editor of the Zeitschrift and director of the Verlag. Together with Sachs, he is to retain his editorship of Imago. Storfer has been appointed head of the Verlag and will also be granted some editorial influence. The editorial office itself will be moved to Berlin and entrusted to Radó, who will be assisted there by Eitingon and by Ferenczi in Budapest. The pillar in the new organization is, of course, Eitingon, who has proved himself extraordinarily in this crisis. Rank was in absolute agreement with these new arrangements; he intends to go to America again, even before Christmas, and stay for several months.
Now to more intimate matters: as you see, an open breach has been avoided. Rank himself did not intend one, and a row is not in our interest either. But all more intimate relations with him have come to an end. We cannot explain his behavior; however, this much is certain: he discarded us all with great ease,