22 May 1911  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»I am enclosing two little communications and one article, in the hope that you may think them worth publishing in the «MDUL»Zentralblatt«MDNM».  The shortest concerns an example of sekundäre Bearbeitung that I mentioned to you, and which you asked me to send a note about for publication.  Another is a pretty analysis of Namenvergessen that I got from my wife; it refers to my sister (Owlie) who married Trotter last year.«FN1.××See Jones (1912f) and (1912e).  Jones's sister Elizabeth married Wilfred Trotter in 1910.»  The article I am much more dubious as to the value of, and I will leave it quite to your judgement to decide whether it is worth publishing at all, or whether it should be altered in any respects.

Now you will want to know about the May meetings, especially the |×/×one, and I had better shortly recount the movement from the beginning.  You had separately suggested to Putnam, Brill and myself last year that we found an American branch of the Internationale Vereinigung, and last November we sent out a circular signed by the three of us and also by August Hoch, the Director of the N.×Y. Psychiatric Institute.  A little later, Brill, without saying a word to Putnam and myself, founded a N. Y. branch of the I. V., of which he is President.  I agreed with him that such local branches that can meet frequently must be the main thing in our propaganda, and suggested the following proposal.  That a general American head branch of the I. V. be formed, to meet once a year to coordinate the work being done, and to give men from different parts of the States the chance of meeting each other, and that as many local societies as possible be formed as sub‑branches of the main one. This seemed to me the only logical plan, and to be demanded by the geographical conditions.  It was agreed to by Jung, with whom I have been in constant correspondence on the matter, but Brill wouldn't hear of it.  He wrote me an extraordinary letter, saying that the plan would do away with local branches and that he didn't want to be independent of the I. V., thus quite misunderstanding the plan.  We exchanged several letters, but I failed to move him in his objection.

At the meeting in Baltimore not a soul from N.×Y. turned up, not even a representative of the society there, and Brill was unfortunately prevented from coming on account of his wife's illness.

The plan therefore fell through of necessity, and, as it was absurd to start another rival society on the same lines as the N. Y. one, I suggested that it might serve a good purpose if we founded one on the lines of the American Neurological Association, the object of which is to provide a cachet for men of good standing by admitting only those of proved competence.  We shall need that in |×/×for already in America there are many men exploiting it for financial and other reasons, whose knowledge of the subject is minimal, and who only bring discredit on the work.  This plan was accepted, and I have written to Jung to ask him to take us in as a branch of the I. V..  The annual meeting is to be open to all members of any local branch, as well as to invited guests, but no one will be elected member of the association unless he has shown some competence in the work.  Under the circumstances I feel it was the best thing we could do.  Putnam is President, I am secretary, and Adolf Meyer, Hoch, and Burrow form the committee.  Meyer has been exceedingly friendly in the past year, and Hoch has written some good papers.  Burrow, an assistant of Meyer's, was with Jung for a year, and knows the work well.

The meeting of the American Psychopathological Assoc. this year was very disappointing.  I will send you the published account of it next month.  The Angst discussion,«FN1.××Concerning Jones (1911e).

» thanks to Putnam, fizzled out into philosophy, and the sexual question was not mentioned.  Meyer is to be President for the next year, so Prince is in the background.

At the American Neurological Association Scripture read a paper on |×/.«FN1.××E. W. Scripture, "Psychanalysis and Correction of Character," read at the annual meeting of the American Neurological Association, Baltimore, 11‑13 May 1911, in «MDUL»Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease«MDNM», 38(1911):743‑745.

»  It was in very bad taste, nothing but cheap jokes, etc., and a vulgar caricature of the real thing.  It caused great amusement in the audience, and great indignation in the minds of some of us.

I have just returned from Detroit where I read papers, on successive evenings, before the Medical Society, and the Academy of Medicine, one on the Relationship of Dreams to psychoneurotic symptoms, the other on «MDUL»Alltagsleben«MDNM».«FN1.××Jones (1911f, 1911g).

»  The latter I am expanding into an article of about 1OO manuscript pages, as I have a lot of good material, and I hope to finish it this week.  I will send it to the «MDUL»American Journal of Psychology«MDNM», and if it does not suit them will publish it in the «MDUL»Journal of Abnormal Psychology«MDNM».  Then I start on the article I promised Jung for the «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM».«FN1.××Jones (1912‑13).

»  You will notice that my working fit has returned.

You will be glad to hear that you have ardent supporters in towns so far apart as Chicago, Omaha, Louisville and Cincinnati, and that there is quite a colony in Baltimore.  Boston holds aloof, and naturally so does the organic Philadelphia, though there is one good man there taking up the work with zeal.

I am eagerly awaiting your paranoia work.  By the way, is it not time that we had a Dritte Folge of the «MDUL»Sammlung«MDNM»?

My personal affairs are still in a flux, but I hope to have some satisfactory news when I write next.  My "protector", Dr. Clarke, the head of the asylum has just resigned on account of the unfavourable conditions in the service, and has taken up a position in the General Hospital.

Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones.