June 1, 1921

Dear Friends:

Miss Turner, our only obstacle at the Brunswick Sq. Clinic, has offer-
ed to resign if a suitable substitute can be found. I was consulted and 
have agreed to the appointment of Mrs Brierley, who being a lay analyst is 
acceptable to Miss T. and being at present in the analysis 
with Flügel and a prospective member of our society is acceptable to us and 
in full accord with our plans. This brings our hopes perceptibly nearer, 
for Glover, who by the way is being elected as a member of the society, 
should now have things in his own hands. The matter was discussed by our 
Council on Monday and the attitude was throughout favourable. In any case
, how- ever, no steps will be taken until after our meeting in September, 
when I will discuss it with the committee and also learn something about 
the details of the Berlin clinic from our friends there.

I have been asked to address the Birmingham Psychopathological Society 
at their first annual dinner next October, and will of course go. 
Sir Phillip Sassoon, who I regret to say is a Jew and therefore should 
have had more sense, has given a quarter of a million pounds sterling to 
found a hospital-clinic for research in psychotherapy, and has bought a 
mansion and park for the purpose in Kent. He placed the matter in the 

hand of a committee of the most antiquated and reactionary neurologists and 
psychiatrists, whose first act was to appoint as Director a complete med-
iocrity, Ross, who kept a country nursing home where it was fashionable to 
send patients for rest cures. He has been paid 500 pounds and all expenses for 
being kind enough to undertake a visit to America in order to study the 
latest scientific methods in the subject. You may imag- ine our feelings. 
I felt like writing to Sassoon and telling him that if he gave us one tenth 
of the sum we would undertake to produce ten times as much research as the 
other people.

Let me congratulate Rank on the imposing Bericht he has, with endless 
labour and trouble, produced. These reviews are thought very highly of and 
are found very useful; I have had a number of compliments on those which 
have appeared in the Journal. I think his idea to buy all the psa literature 
from Heller is most excellent. We have not yet received the Library books. 
I believe the war neuroses will sell well, but do not place too many hopes 
on the Putnam book.

I am extremely sceptical about Sadger’s conclusions.5 In 1907 I made an 
historical investigation into part of the problem, though only part of my 
work has been published (in Revue Neurologique, Mars 13, 1908). I shewed, 
after collecting all the cases published, that statistically there is 
no reason to think that, e.g. hemiplegia and hemianaesthesia, occur on one 
side more often than on the other, in spite of the statement to this effect 
copied from one text-book to another. Until this is proved it is useless to 
speculate on the reason for it. Besides, my tailor tells me that more men 
carry their genitals on the right side than on the left. Naturally this 
does not exclude Sadger’s interpretation in individual cases, which is an-
other matter.

I am eagerly looking forward to the proofs of the Massenpsychologie and 
the second edition of the Jenseits (which I am at present revising once 
more).

Silberer has decided, in a polite letter, not to pursue the matter any 
further, and begged me to find him English publishers who would give his 
printing firm some orders!

I enclose a letter for Vienna from Coriat who gives an interesting 
impression of the situation in Boston. I do not want it back.

Flügel has behaved very badly in the matter of the Vorlesungen, sud- 
denly refusing to do the part he had undertaken. We are employing a Miss 
Baines, secretary of Mitchell, who translates excellently. She will do 
one third and Mrs Rivière the other third, with of course my revision. 

With cordial greetings

Ernest Jones.