My dear Friend:
I have not in a long time experienced a greater joy than that which
your dispatch afforded me! That is splendid. What we owe to you in
this matter is incalculable; if you had not kept tirelessly at work,
nothing would have been effected,—at least not for a long time.
Fifteen founders! Of these Förster and Spielhagen alone would be
sufficiently influential. If Levysohn is also of the number, then the
_Berliner Tageblatt_ will do much for its reception among publicists,
and Mosse, we may hope, for the pecuniary side. Wrede’s dispatch went
off without my having anything to do with it, else I should not have
permitted my name to be put in the foreground. Well, of course the
main thing will be the greetings for the first great public meeting;
and I will be trying to induce Krafft-Ebing, Starhemberg, Oldenburg,
etc., to be on hand. Then will the Germans and Austrians be working
“shoulder to shoulder,” but not in the old teeth-showing style.
You must now endeavor to have our review the “official organ” of the
German society. The secretary would then have to send a short report
each month. If in the other cities of Germany still other societies
should arise, so much the better for the movement.