Brooklyn Aug 17 '08

My dear Professor

Your letter certainly afforded me great pleasure.  I am really proud of the confidence which you are so kind [as?] to place in me.  I shall endeavor to come up to your expectations, and hope to contribute my mite towards the propagation of your great works in America.  I can realize your feelings in being obliged to rewrite the Hysterie Studien unchanged, but there ought to be great satisfaction in the knowledge that the book is now in demand everywhere.  Of course it would be

so much better if it embodied your ideas only.  Hereafter my chief aim will be to spread your ideas.  Almost daily I am having discussions with colleagues and I am sure it leaves some impressions.  Naturally, there are always some who more out of ignorance than anything else can not be convinced.  I worked up a case from my Burghölzli service and sent it to Morton Prince's Journal.  He accepted it and wrote me a very flattering letter.  "It is just the kind of work the journal wishes" he remarked.  He also asked me to write a paper on your works and those of the Zürich school, especially desiring me to define the "unconscious" from your and Jung's view points.  He justly says that your works are only vaguely understood here.  I promised to write this article which I believe can do no harm.  I should however like you to please help me with that definition of the "unconscious".  All I know about your views of the unconscious I have from the Traumdeutung pp. 315-16-17, is that sufficient? or is it necessary to be more specific?  I am working on the selected papers and hope to have it ready in the near future.  For the last few weeks I was somewhat distracted from my work, I have been looking about for a new residence in N.Y.  This is not at all easy.  I now rented a place not far from the clinic of which I shall take possession within a few days.  My address will then be # 100 W. 78th St. New York City.

Jones's paper read at the congress just appeared in Prince's Journal

and I notice it is marked "Read at Congress of Psychology at Salzburg", I can't quite see why he couldn't say where it came from.  I notice the same in Abraham's paper which is labeled "Vortrag."  There is no reason why they should not have mentioned that they were read at our Congress.  I do not think that it is necessary to conceal our very existence.  I have had a number of very nice cases since I am in the clinic.  I "cured" a case of "Manic Depress. Insanity" of six years duration i.e. she had an attack of depression every year for 6 yrs.  It was a very nice analysis.  I am just beginning to understand things.

Both my wife and I send you our kindest regards to you and your family.

Very Sincerely  A. Brill.