l9 March l9O9  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»First let me thank you for your most interesting reprint.  It was like all your writings too short, in that we crave, like Oliver Twist, for more.

Then as to the great news of your coming over.  I am of course delighted for personal reasons, and in addition I think it will do your cause good, for I am a great believer in the effect of personal influence and presence.  What subject will you choose?  I suppose you will publish the lectures in the form of a book covering more or less systematically a given topic.  Why don't you speak in English.  I honestly see not the slightest reason why you shouldn't, and of course if I could do anything towards the idiomatic rendering of any points or in any other way I should be most happy to do so.  Is the exact date fixed?  I shall be in Europe end of July and August and shall be returning (to New York) about the end of August.  I wonder if it would be possible for me to have the good fortune of travelling on the same boat.  Have you chosen your route, etc., yet?

With regard to Morton Prince I think, strange as it may appear, that we are both right.  There are often different ways of looking at the same thing.  It is natural he should want to minimise the importance of your work, for he is 54, and it is hard for him to realise that he has been working for a quarter of a century on the surface, and has missed the essential points all the time.  One can hardly expect him to behave otherwise under the circumstances.  He is as upright as he can be, but is of course swayed by the influence of all those years passed on other directions.  His exposition of your views on the Subconscious is hopelessly foolish, but that is because he is stupid, and because also he really finds it very hard to understand your meaning; he finds your writings very difficult.

He has not declined any [abstract]«FN1.××Crossed out in the original.» paper from Brill, only an abstract that was written in coarse language (I read it myself).  Different countries have different ideas as to what is permissible in expression, and his journal is not a medical one, but a semi‑popular one with a large female audience.  He personally is not prudish.  Of Abraham's article I know nothing, so cannot say.  Prince accepted two abstracts I recently wrote of Abraham's alcohol and dementia precox articles.«FN1.××Likely Abraham (1927, pp. 64‑79) or (1955, pp. 13‑20) on dementia praecox; and Abraham (1927, pp. 80‑89) on alcohol.  Jones's reviews did not appear in Prince's «MDUL»Journal of Abnormal Psychology«MDNM».

»  He certainly has no "bad intentions veiled by friendly speaking", for he is simple‑minded and easily seen through.

I am sorry you so disapproved of my remark on diplomacy and will say no more about it except that there are different ways of reaching the same aim and that each must work as he sees fit.

With kindest regards  yours ever sincerely  Ernest Jones.