8 March 1911  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»The Hamlet Heft arrived this morning, and has given me much pleasure to read through.  I feel quite proud.  I do not know how to thank you enough for the great personal trouble you have taken over it; Rank, in a letter I got today, told me something of it, and besides I think I know enough German to detect your hand in the beautiful phrases with which you have clothed and polished my work.  Believe me that I am deeply grateful and appreciative.

Rank seems to be grandly active in his work.  You must be proud of him as a disciple.  He tells me that we may expect a third edition of the «MDUL»Traumdeutung«MDNM» in May.  That will be a great treat.

I have told my London agents to send you some plays of Bernard Shaw,«MDUL»«MDNM»«FN1.××George Bernard Shaw (1856‑1950), Irish novelist, essayist, and playright, was a favourite of Jones's.

» and hope they will arrive safely.  I do not expect you to read them all, except possibly on a holiday.  The ones most worth reading are, in order: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Getting Married, Caesar and Cleopatra, and the Devil's Disciple.  The first (notably the Hell Scene in it) I can specially commend to you.  Please do not take this little present as an expression of my gratitude to you, for that cannot be shown in such a way as this, though perhaps it may serve as a memento of my first contribution to your work, a contribution which I sincerely hope will be followed by other more worthy ones.

Things in general are going well in America.  I constantly get letters showing interest and advancement in the work.  You ask me about Brill's health.  All I know is that he had some obscure trouble, with high intraocular tension, in the eyes, and that it is now again quite well.  It is to be hoped that he will get no recurrence.  I am at present negociating with him and Jung about the organisation in America.  I think there should be a main centralising American branch of the Internationale |×/ Vereinigung, and that local sub‑sections should be subordinate to it.  They both seem to agree to this, and I expect it will be so settled at the May meeting.  I have written to Bleuler (and Jung) asking for permission to translate his «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM» article for the «MDUL»Journal of Abnormal Psychology«MDNM».«FN1.××Bleuler (1910) and Jones (1911‑12).

»  Matters between Morton Prince and myself are strained.  He is an agreeable fellow, but too much of a schoolboy, and prefers fighting to learning.  I am afraid that if it comes to a split in the camp, as is probable in May, Putnam may side with him rather than with us.  Putnam is too timid by nature, unless one can act on his conscience, and "duty‑complex".  If I am still here next year, I expect we shall have a journal of our own, which will knock out Prince's.  Personally, matters are very disagreeable with me in many ways.  Externally the clouds are rolling high in Toronto, and the opposition to me on all sides is fierce.  I hear the maddest inventions and rumours of my "dangerous teachings and influences", and all sorts of absurd lies are told about me.  I still keep a detective, but that silly couple of female doctor and patient have done nothing more of late.  They applied to a magistrate for a warrant to arrest me, but he sent them about their business.  I have enough evidence collected about the woman's past to have her deported out of the country, but am taking no steps as they might lead to an open scandal.  My wife is very upset, and urges me, as she has done for a long time, to retire from private practice on account of its being "such dangerous work".  If I refuse I think she will leave me, although we are otherwise devoted to each other.  She has terribly strong complexes against the work, and I have never had a chance of breaking her resistance, on account of the grave state of her general health.  If I give up I should have to go to London, and devote myself for a few years to research in mythology, anthropology, religion etc.  As you know, there is ample room for such work, but I feel I could do good work in neurology and psychiatry, where I already have some reputation, and do not want to give up.

It is difficult to ask for advice, for the circumstances are too complicated to relate fully, but you know I would attach the greatest weight to anything you could say.  For various reasons I must decide one way or the other soon.

You may imagine that in this state of affairs, on top of heavy work, I have not been able to give myself much to fresh work during the past couple of months. The most certain thing in my mind is that I can never give myself to any other line of work than |×/; it has for me a most powerful appeal.

With Kindest Regards  Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones.

«IP0,0»«MDUL»P.S.«MDNM»  I have found in Dr. Curran Pope a very good translator for Hitschmann, and have written to tell him so.«FN1.××Curran Pope (1866‑1934), physician in Louisville, Ky., joined the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1912.  Eduard Hitschmann (1871‑1957), M.×D. 1895 University of Vienna, member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.  C. R. Payne translated Hitschmann (1911).»