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12 November 1911, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Thank you for your letter and parcel. I am busy enough again to have been able to put off answering until Sunday.
I have passed on your wishes or orders to Stekel, who ought normally to get his instructions directly from you. I find it quite justified that you should make your influence felt through your budgetary prerogative. I had been wanting to provide you with an official means of pressure on the Zentralblatt. This design was frustrated at the Congress by our good but rather obtuse Stegmann; he was punished by having to put forward the proposal himself on the occasion of our farcical elections. I ceded to his objection, because it seemed to me that as long as the Viennese still included the Adler group they could not be made to abandon their local patriotism entirely. But it is still my aim to see the control of all our periodicals concentrated in your hands. I have put in a word for the subsidizing of Silberer's paper—not for Stekel's but for Silberer's sake. We have asked him if he is willing to wait until the paper can be published in the Jahrbuch. If so, you will receive it immediately; if not, we shall set something else aside and publish it at once in the Zentralblatt. The whole affair, it now dawns on me, was a superfluous sensation, cooked up by Stekel. When he interferes with you, I beg you never to suppose that I have anything to do with it. You can't imagine how he poisons the whole