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19 October 1929
Tegel
Dear Jones,
I am still here, but hope to be able to leave in the course of next week with a fairly big improvement of the prosthesis. I have read your comments in reply to Simmel's letter and found them very reasonable.
I do not know why there should be difficulties with the Verlag on account of the translation of the new Unbehagen in der Kultur.1 I regarded the matter as settled since your last explanation about the English rights. We have long given up expecting mountains of gold from translations in America.
Your trip to New York after such a long absence will certainly be very interesting for you and important for us. Your support of Brill in the fight against all the American medical quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-analysts will make an impression. It is again an instance where “resistance”2 is more necessary than “adaptation,”3 which is the only thing they esteem there.
The periodic distinctions between holidays and work-time are already disappearing for me behind the slow and steadily declining curve of life. I think I am entitled to a rest.
When do you leave for New York?
With cordial greetings to you and your dear wife.
Yours,
Freud