Dr. A. A. Brill
100 West 78th Street 
New York
Telephone 8101 Riverside 
Office hours
9 to 12, 5 to 

Sept 20, 08

My dear Professor.

I thank you very much for your advise 
about the Unbewussten.  I am not sure whether I will 
write this article for Morton Prince’s journal, though 
he is very anxious that I should do so.  I jut had 
a letter from him in which he tells me that he has 
written to you about the same subject. He seems to entertain 
some resistences about our work which I think are 
mainly due to the fact that he knows but little about it. 
The reason I am hesitating about writing the article mentioned 
is this: Jones, in our conversation, always implied 
that he had some arrangement with Prince to take charge 
of the same work. When Prince asked me to do it I was 
very much surprised and I immediately wrote to Jones 
and Prince. Jones has not written to me for some time 
in fact I don’t know whether he is here or in Europe 
and Prince states that he had absolutely no such 
agreement with Jones.  He says that Jones corresponded 
with Donnely – assistant editor – and as far as he 
understands Jones was to take charge of the German 
literature in general. I am however still waiting to hear 
from Jones as I do not care to interfere with his

plans.  I wonder what happened to him, have you 
heard anything about his whereabouts?  I am very 
pleased to hear that you have gone over to Zürich for 
a few days. It will certainly help to draw the bonds 
tighter. I knew for some time that Jung was not 
quite contented. In fact I could see this at the congress 
but I must say that his contentions were perfectly 
baseless. I was more astonished when Jones showed 
me later a letter sent to him by Jung. Your visit to 
Zürich ought certainly to rectify matters. Jung is a 
person of moods he was much affected by Abraham’s 
paper he remarked to me that he considered it „plagiar-
ism“.  I really could not see why he has had that 
view. Of course I write this for your own information.

I know Dr. Parker but I don’t know what connection he 
has with Columbia, he is not in any way connected with 
the clinic else I would know it.  I am pleased that 
you refused his offer simply because I prefer to have 
your views spread from your own works.  As for me 
I am assiduously working and things look well. The more 
I analyze the more I learn and become convinced 
of the truth of your teachings.  I have convinced some 
men in the profession that psychoanalysis can do some 
thing. One of the assistants in our clinic gave me a case 
which he considered „some mental trouble“ and quite 
hopeless. The young man suffered for years, being unable 
to do any work. After a few weeks work I removed all 
his symptoms and he is now happy and working. 
It is a nice case of hysteria. Now wishing you and your 
family a very happy New Year I remain 
Sincerely Yours
A Brill