Jan. 21. 1921.
L.2./ Bl.2., Bd. 2., W.2.

Dear Friends:

Bd. Re Hermann’s communication: Marinetti, the futurist poet, has just
founded a new artform based on touch which he calls "tactilism".

Bl. The idea of always putting the Wohnort after the author’s name is an
excellent one, which we have adopted already for the J.; it adds much to the
interest of the reader in a foreign country. Is Vollrath the Corresponding 
Secretary in Berlin?

Best thanks for the clear report of the English Analysanden. I am happy to
hear that it is such a good one, and, from what I had heard, am not sur-
prised. We have no prejudice whatever against the three people in question,
but as regards the Clinic it is essential before we have anything to do with
it or the people there that it be changed and run on medical-professional
lines, especially in regard to the lay analysts. I hope you will keep this
point in the forefront of your interest. So far we have been at least as
strict in all medical ethics as our medical colleagues, and we hope
always to remain so.

Dr Herford has made a very unfavourable beginning. I expected that she
would now approach me (for the first time) and say that she had progressed 
so and so far in Ps-A and would like to enter into relations with us. Instead
of which she has chosen the backstairs method of writing to say she would

like to call on my wife because she had met her sister in Berlin (which I
suppose is unfortunately true). It is just this personal obtrusiveness that
makes her so very unpopular. She might have guessed that the question of
professional relations with her, still doubtful, ought to precede that of
intimate family relations!

W. I will arrange for the exchange of the J. of Neurology, and will find
out which address you are to send the Z. to. Ralph has sent me his book on
Psychical Surgery and also a later one The Psychology of Nervous Ailments,
which are fairly good and will be reviewed in the J. He seems to be an Eng-
lishman, mining engineer who has travelled much and settled in California to
practise lay Ps-A. He now lives in Torquay, Devon, England and I have in-
vited him to be a guest at our Society. He has a considerable knowledge of
Ps-A. I am asking for both the Fuller and Mark Twain books. Perhaps you
will write a note about the two Bourget books in the Z., and also the art-
icles in the French journals I sent earlier. Against my expectations there
seems to be a glimmer even in France! It should be cherished.

I will write the Rundschreiben about Reik. It is good news about Munich,
and I hope that in time they will apply for admission to the International.
Together with Dresden, and the progress in Berlin, things are going forward 
in Germany.

London. The Society voted with a small majority against a 1921 Congress, 
thus agreeing with the Vienna Society. Other news I will circulate as soon
as received, but it begins to look as though we shall decide for 1922.

The newspaper campaign begins to show signs of abating. In our society

the feeling was on the whole in favour of ignoring the matter publicly. An
attempt is being made to get the London County Council to licence and super-
vise lay analysts under the law relating to massage and other quasi-medical
measures, but it will surely come to nothing.

The Lyceum Club, a well-known women’s club, has a "Philosophical Circle"
which is going to have a dinner and evening on the subject of Ps-A. They
exclude Jungians and such people. They invited me to address them, with also
short speeches from Bryan, Flügel, and Miss Low, and asked me to choose 12
guests of honour. The Editor of the Times, of the Lancet, and other journals
will probably be there. It is on Feb. 24th and will be fully reported in the
Press. I have agreed to the plan, and will report more later.

Moxon, whose article on Ps-A of the Christian Creed I sent to W. some
time ago, has written from California to say he was an English clergyman who
gave up his religion and is practising Ps-A there.

Nothing from Brill! I am getting more anxious.

It will be better for the Secretaries to send reports of the Congress-
voting, the discussion of the questionnaire, etc, to Flügel, as he knows
nothing of the Rundbrief and so I cannot show him the communications.

With cordial wishes to all
yours
Ernest Jones