DR. A. A. BRILL
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NEW YORK
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Jan 11 /14

My dear Professor

I am very grateful to you for sending 
me the nicest Christmas gift I ever received. 
It is just the gift I needed in those days. I can 
assure you that it has already helped and 
inspired me.

Since my letter to you I have felt much 
better, my ability for work has also in-
creased. I just received word from

Unwin London that he is going to publish the 
Psychopathologie. This naturally caused me much 
happiness. He also wants me to give him 
a translation of Wit and Totem u. Tabu. 
Wit is practically finished all I have to do is 
to substitute examples etc., while Totem u. 
Tabu I expect to have ready very shortly. I have 
a patient a young writer who is helping me 
on it and as he knows German I expect 
to have it ready very soon. I am having 
a bit of trouble with Allen & Co. Long ago while 
I was endeavoring to place the Traumdeutung 
with him I wrote him that I would also

let him consider the Psychopathologie & Wit, to 
which he answered that he would be pleased 
to consider them. I am not very pleased 
with Allen for many reasons.  He continually 
delayed the publication of the Interpretation 
although he promised to do so very soon after 
he received the manuscript. The arrangement 
of terms what he forced me to accept, 
I am told, are very poor and unsatisfactory. 
But the main reason for my not offering

it to him is this. The Macmillan of N. Y. asked me 
for the manuscript and after keeping it for 
months they finally refused to publish it 
saying that it would not pay. I suspected 
at the time that they wanted me to give it to 
Allen so that they should have no responsibility 
and yet handle the American edition as they 
did with Traumdeutung. I was naturally very 
angry at them for keeping the manuscript so long 
and for asking me for it in the first place. 
So that in order not to give it to them I purposely 
refused to give it to Allen. Now Allen is very 
anxious to get it because as he writes the N. Y. Macmillan

asked him for the American rights.

I don’t know just what to do about sending the 
annual dues of the Ψ. α. Soc. to the I. V. knowing your 
plans I did not send anything this year.
I do hope that you can bring this change about 
very soon.

You promised to read the Interpretation and 
make suggestions in the event of a second 
edition. I heard nothing from the publishers 
but I should be very interested to hear what

changes or suggestions you would make.  Please 
remember that I am not asking you to 
waste any time at present I realize you have 
more important matters to attend to, but as 
you wrote me some time ago that you have 
gone over about 100 pages or more I am 
naturally curious and would like to hear your opinion.

My family is doing well.  Gioia is rapidly 
becoming a little girl & watching her develop I 
more and more realize the infantile sexual 
theories.

The movement here is going along as nicely

as possible, we have some opposition from the old 
opponents but we are constantly progressing. 
The journals are just filled with psychoanalytic 
literature. Psychoanalysts are springing up every 
where and my only worry is how to check the 
„wild psychoanalysts.“

With kindest regards and best wishes to 
you and yours I am
Very Sincerely
Brill