5 May 1932  81 Harley Street  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»I hasten to send you news which, so far as it goes, is very good.  I had translated and circularised your communication, so that there was a specially large attendance at the Meeting.  Unfortunately I had nothing more to lay before them, since Martin was not able, in spite of my entreaties, to send me any data in time for the Meeting.  Your communication had had exactly the effect you desired and the members took the fullest and entirely positive interest in the situation.  Many alternative proposals were made of a general nature, with which I will not trouble you in detail at present.  We appointed a strong Sub‑Committee to consider the question further when we had some concrete data to study.  In the meantime, however, the spontaneous wish was expressed, without any suggestion from myself, that even at this preliminary meeting a resolution be passed (which was carried unanimously) expressing the intention of the Society to do its utmost to save and maintain the Verlag.

My own impression is that it should prove possible, by annual subscriptions or otherwise, to secure enough money that would support the Verlag indefinitely, provided that it was made more internationally oriented«FN1.××On the bottom of second page of the letter, Jones appended the following note referring to this last point: "Incidentally, you were not correct in saying that the «MDUL»JOURNAL«MDNM» can freely dispose of papers published in the «MDUL»ZEITSCHRIFT«MDNM».  This is a desideratum I have long striven for, but in vain."

» and that it was supervised by a sufficiently representative committee.  Today, however, my optimism has received some set‑back by receiving Martin's communication when I was appalled at the size of the sum that has to be collected before September.  I really do not know what to say about this possibility at the moment and think it will have to depend on the goddess Fortune ‑‑ let us hope that she still lives in America!  I am going to Berlin after Whitsun where I will have an opportunity of discussing the whole matter, together with Congress business, with Eitingon.

Another interesting piece of news, also favourble in direction, is the following.  The Radio in this country is a Government institution with great prestige.  It has hitherto wisely avoided the subject of psycho‑analysis and all the surrounding debatable ground (Adler, etc.), and my own name was on a black list as a morally dangerous person, together with Bertrand Russell's (something like the old Austrian P. U.).  They have now judged that the situation has ripened and have decided to give a course of lectures on Psychology next autumn, divided into two equal parts, the first part, on Consciousness, to be delivered by a modern and capable Professor of Psychology (incidentally, one of our own members, Cyril Burt), and the second part, on the Unconscious, by myself.«FN1.××Cyril Burt, "The Conscious Mind," in C. Burt, E. Jones, E. Miller, and W. Moodie, eds., «MDUL»How the mind works«MDNM» (London: Allen and Unwin, 1933, pp. 17‑58); and Jones (1933b).

»  My name was taken off the black list by the Archbishop of York!«FN1.××From this point on the letter is hand‑written.

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With best wishes for the success of our latest campaign  Yours always  Ernest Jones

«IP0,0»«MDUL»P.S.«MDNM» Would you please give Anna the enclosed note.