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350F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
51 February 1919
Dear Friend,
First, let me state that it is bitterly cold here in this room, and then let me add that I have heard with pleasure from various sources about your improved state of health and the arrival of your review. But I have nothing yet from E. Simmel2; I have had no word from him, and you do not mention him in your letter either.
The preparations to set up the Verlag are progressing very well. Rank is really outstandingly competent and keen. The second issue of the is almost completely in type, the first is on the way from Czechia, and paper has been bought. There is talk of Rank's going to Switzerland to meet Jones there and perhaps build up the organization a little further.3 We are delighted to be able to work in our jardin secret4 while the storm lays waste to everything outside.
Activity in the societies here, in Budapest and in Holland, is lively. We hope the same will soon be true of yours in Berlin.
The last few weeks have brought me several new editions and translations, of which the most recent is the Leonardo.5 The first half of the Dutch translation of the Lectures6 has appeared, and a Danish translation of the American lectures is assured.
I have been lingering not unintentionally on the bright side of things. Depicting the other side would take us too far afield. I am very busy, but ___. Of Martin, who is in Genoa, we have since had no news. In any case, he would not be missing any work here. I was recently visited by an American from Wilson's staff.7 He came accompanied by two baskets