May 21st. 1921

Dear Friends:

The intermediate Vienna letter, previously missing, arrived safely.

I am now back at work, after four weeks’ intermission, and feel so well 
that I can face even the enormous accumulation of all sorts that I find 
waiting. I must, however, beg Rank for a little indulgence at first; for 
instance, I have to do a few urgent things before I can correct the Jen- 
seits, which is fortunately a less urgent matter since it is not to appear 
in the next number of the Journal.

The chief news from here is an agreeable one. I had an hour’s very 
friendly talk with Glover this morning and we came to a close agreement 
about the Brunswick Sq Clinic and other matters. There seems a good hope 
of its falling into our hands if we proceed cautiously, so it is quite poss-
ible that next year there may be a London Psa Clinic. He has not returned 
there since he came back from Berlin, but I advised him to do so, and thus 
keep his influence there till it is needed for the coup. In the meantime 
I will get Glover elected to our Society at the next meeting, and possibly 
Mrs Herford also (although she annoyed us on Thursday by appearing at our 
meeting uninvited). Miss Sharpe I have not yet come across, but doubtless 
will do so before long.

Yesterday I learnt from Stern that over three months ago (!) the New 
York Society “appointed” Brill, Frink, and Farnell to be the American edit-
ors of the Journal. I am writing to Professor separately on the matter. 
I will now take up some points neglected from former letters. No, there 
is one more point, which for good reasons I had almost forgotten. Stanley 
Hall wrote personally several pages of reviews of Psa publications for the 
April number of the American Journal of Psychology. The first one is a 
very eulogistic review of our Journal. “The most important recent public-
ation in the field of psa is the above journal, which appears at a time 
when, owing to the presumed disturbed conditions in Austria, the Zeitschr-
ift, Imago, and Jahrbuch show signs of languishing in quality, quantity, 
and frequency of appearance. It will be a godsend to all English readers 
interested in this cult (!) if it can maintain the high level on which it 
has begun ... It is so well edited that it cannot fail to be a helpful 
and stimulating competitor not only of the Zeitschrift but also (even that!) 
of our own excellent Psychoanalytic Review”. Any enjoyment one might have 
got from these twohanded compliments, however, is quickly dissipated by 
noting that similar, if not more, praise is then given indiscriminately to 
a series of rubbishy books pretending to be on Psa, which appear in Amer-
ica in large quantities. For instance, Bousfield’s scandalous production 
(see my review in J.3) is “the latest and best” book on the subject, from 
which “the specialist will find much help in its judicious perspective”. 
Really one cannot forgive him, in spite of his age. He is old enough to 
know better.

Bp. Of Forsyth I had heard absolutely nothing since the Congress. He has
 not attended a meeting of the Society for more than a year, although he 
is still nominally a member of the Council (which will have to change 
next October). I wonder if he is in correspondence with Professor?

We often get asked for an analyst in Paris and I have notified our 
members of Frau Sokolnicka’s move to there. I hope it may be possible to 
send her some patients. I suppose she is medically qualified?

I do not think that the second edition of your Contributions has app-
eared, for Badger would have sent me a copy and I have not seen it ann-
ounced in his advertisements. Perhaps he is not reprinting it, since I 
refused to translate new chapters for it. In that case would Rank agree 
that I try to buy the rights from Badger and issue it in the Press Lib-
rary series? I have found a translator for your later articles, which, 
with your permission will make a Zweite Folge of the Contributions, a 
Dr Jane Suttie of Glasgow who is interested in Psa and asked me if she 
might do some translation. She sent me a sample of her work, which was 
very good. I sent her recently seven numbers of the Zeitschrift containing 
articles by you, but have no more. Could Rank secure for this purpose 
the following nine numbers and send them to her (address 4 Granville St): 
Zeitschr. II,6; III,1; IV,2,3,5,6; V,1,3,4.

Berlin. You, my dear Abraham, will have been interested in the report I 
give of my interview with Glover, and to hear that he made an excellent
 impression on me, throughout bearing out your opinion. We expect much from 
him.

I am exceedingly satisfied with your suggestion of Hildesheim and grate-
ful to you for making the arrangements. I find a week very short for such 
interest and pleasure as it promises. Could it not be somewhat longer, 
even if not for all?

Many thanks for the Würzburg postcard (a copy of which I already pos- 
sess), which I am forwarding to Vienna. It is extremely interesting.

My best congratulations on the splendid progress in Berlin in all res-
pects. I wish our members here had even a little of the activity yours 
show.

Vienna. Two copies of the translation of Hug-Hellmuth’s book were sent to 
me from America for Professor and for her respectively. Will you be kind 
enough to forward hers, as I haven’t her address.

I was glad to know of the re-establishment of the Prizes, as also of the 
particular selections.

My best congratulations on the success of the Verlag. We all know whose 
“mühelose Arbeit” we have to thank for it. The future will be rosier still.

I am writing to Rank on some Press details separately.

With again many thanks to all for their kind inquiries about my 
illness, which is now an uninteresting affair of the past, and with 
cordial greetings

Ernest Jones