June 15. 1923
Dear Friends:

At last another Rundbrief, though a short one, from me. I am exceedingly grate-
ful for the kind messages you all sent, which I have separately answered, and am glad
 to say that I have made a good recovery from the operation, though I am still suffer-
ing badly from neuritis. The arrears of work that have accumulated are desperate.

I am sorry that there is no good report as yet to give of the Press. The delays
are proving very serious indeed, partly due to the economic disorganisation in Germany and 
partly to the great difficulty of getting our material transferred from Vienna. This
transition period is most trying and difficult, but one cannot pass judgement on the
new system until it has been fairly in operation, which is not yet the case.

I was grieved to hear the bad news about the French translation, and only someone
who like myself has witnessed the results of such things for years can estimate how
powerfully they operate among the educated classes. In France the sensitiveness about
language is even greater than in England. I only wish I could convey to you my sense
of the importance of the matter, but I have tried for years to do so with very
limited success.

Brill and Oberndorf, who with Frink are the co-editors of the Journal
on the American side, have written me very strong letters of complaint about Frink.
It seems that he has not only ignored them in the most tactless manner, but has gone
out of his way to insult them both. Even after making due allowance for the known
sensitiveness of the two writers I am bound to conclude that Frink has not taken
much trouble to conciliate them. I am of course doing all I possibly can to restore
the peace all round.

Hamlet is being played in New York by Barrymore on the lines of psa.
Berlin. Miss Sharpe read in May a most excellent paper on the analysis of Francis
 

Thompson, a religious poet, shewing aesthetic appreciation as well as acute analysis,
and I congratulate you, dear Hanns, on your pupil. On the other hand, your other pupil
Miss Chadwick, has so far been a disappointment; she is certainly useless for any
literary purpose, for her English is totally uneducated—like a servant girl.

We are sending the MS of Part 4 of the Journal to press in the next couple of
weeks, so will you please, dear Karl, let us have any reports you can in this time.
Budapest. Eder makes a good impression, and I am proposing him as Member at the
meeting next week.
Vienna. I was amused to hear of Stekel’s last move, but doubt whether dislike of
psa is not too negative a motive to hold together such disparate elements for long,
as we have already seen with Tannenbaum–Stekel–Silberer.

Owing to the complexities of a situation with her lover, whom Rickman is analysing,
I have advised a woman doctor (Moralt) to be analysed abroad and recommended her to
consult you, dear Otto. She is very emotional, but not hard to manage.

I, as probably others, should like to know whether wives are coming to the
August rendezvous.

We are looking forward to the pleasure of seeing Abraham here next month, and wonder
if we are also going to have of seeing Ferenczi as well. The Congress itself is not
interesting in its programme, but the occasion is perhaps important.

With cordial greetings to all,

Ernest