11 May 1922«FN1.××Freud had written 1920.»  Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Dear Jones

«IP4,0»This letter I might have written you some weeks before, only I could not as to the habitual work or overwork was joined the effect of some slight indisposition and the loss of time by the bustle about my birthday, Eitingon's visit etc.  Also I had cleared my mind by that card which confessed my being wrong on your account.«FN1.××Postcard missing.»

The conference with Rickman, Strachey, Rank, Hiller and Mrs. Riviere proved to be a failure in a certain sense.  I had wanted to learn what the cause of the incredible delays in the publication of the two essays«FN1.××Freud (1920g, 1921c).

» was and I could not find it out.  My first suspicion, that the fault lay with you I had to take back and to apologize to you.  It became evident that a great part of the causation had its roots in the '«MDUL»Kinderkrankheiten«MDNM»' [growing pains] of the Verlag and the Press«MDUL»«MDNM», no rooms, not enough type and no fixed arrangements with the printers, but these obstacles are now nearly all of them removed and have been so for some months. This factor does not seem to cover the effect.  I am now inclined to think that Hiller is not very efficient on the whole and I know that Rank is managing him with great care and caution because he is not easy to manage.  Yet I do not wish to sow discord between you and him, I am willing to drop the matter and to give up my attempts to interfere with the activity of the Press.  I dont think my daughter could be intended as a possible substitute for Hiller, whom I readily acknowledge as indispensable with all his shortcomings.

The other subject treated at this conference appeared much more hopeful.  Your countrymen made some special demands and prepositions of which you will now be informed by a letter of J. Riviere.  The main result was that all three of them seemed ready to assist you in your work and take upon their shoulders such parts of it as you thought desirable to be relieved of, requesting to consult with you regularly in the meetings of the Committee.

The strongest personality among them is obviously the woman.  I think you should not reproach yourself for having turned her mind to | A; she is a real power and can be put to work by a slight expenditure of kindness and "recognitions".  To be sure she is a concentrated acid not to be used until duly diluted and she is not yet even with you, but I see no real difficulty.  My diplomacy is to be as kind to her as I can and not to spare concessions in order to make her open her mind and disclose the access to the deeper layers.  If I am to conclude from my impressions up to now I think you were too hard in criticising her, took her resistance too seriously and could not control her sadism after it came up as it had to do.  Apart from the duties of the analyst I feel rather kindly towards her although I am prepared to see the wry sides of her character as you describe them to me. (To be continued)

«IP0,0»                                             12 May 1922

She is ready to give a special interest to the translation of my Collection, thinks that the Americans outsiders like my niece etc. will never do good and that the undertaking was sure to gain in uniformity of style when done by very few people.  She did not say she wanted to do it all by herself (with the help of one Miss Baines and the contributions of the Strachey's), but I do think you should favour her and if she selects some special papers as f. e. the Beiträge z. Liebesleben«FN1.××Freud (1910h, 1912d, 1918a), trans. J. Riviere, in Freud, «MDUL»Collected Papers«MDNM», 4:192‑202; 203‑216; 217‑235.

» for her own job, take them away from the other people to be reserved for her.  I think this translation will play a part in your correspondence with her.  By the by I saw yesterday Dr. Egerton (Oxford), who came to the meeting, remembered that you had trusted him with some part of the translation and ventured to ask him if he had done it.  He answered no but that he was doing it.  I dont expect he will prove reliable, but I could not get his address this time.

«IP4,0»One of the points mentioned at the conference, to which I strongly adhere, was that all translations should be duly paid.  I am not sure if the Press is supposed to pay me as the author of the books appearing, in that case I am willing to pay the translators myself.  If not the money will have to be provided for.

Now I am getting sick of this translating business.  I was deeply stirred«FN1.××Freud seems to be following the German here: "deeply stirred" = «MDUL»tief«MDNM» «MDUL»gerührt«MDNM».» by your saying that you considered the bringing out of my English books as one of the foremost tasks of your work and hope you will see this in the light of a tender exaggeration produced by some sudden impulse, while your substantial work is sure to aim higher and loose sight of my narrow personal interests.  I still appreciate your words as an expression of an unfailing kindness towards me, which as you know I always intend to return.

My birthday left me one year older and that is all about it.  I have accumulated some stuff for work in the vacations, no great discoveries to be sure.  I am leaving Vienna on July 1st for Gastein, expect to meet my wife and daughter on Aug. 1st somewhere, the place is not yet known, and to come to Berlin about the middle of Sept.  As I have only one (American) patient to eight pupils my work is not so heavy now, but my interest in it is rather declining and my appetite for rest, or rather freedom, increasing.

Dr. Frink has come back for May and June.  The death of his rival (by carcinoma) has simplified the state of his affairs and abolished all possibilities of scandal in virtuous America.«FN1.××Abraham Bijur, the husband of Frink's lover, Angelika Bijur, had just died, see Jones (1957a, pp. 84‑85; 1957b, pp. 89).

»  If he has settled down anew, he may become of great use as a leader to the American movement, he is an excellent man, much more reliable, devoted and serious than Brill.  Your Mr. Armstrong turned up one day.  I advised him strongly to take an | / treatment and had to give him the address of Abraham as he found your fees too high.  I have not heared if he has arrived there.

You do not mention your wife and children, so I trust they are all right and progressive according to their promise.

With affectionate regards

                                   yours truly  Freud