August 12th 1921.

Dear Friends,

A letter from Berlin dated July 21st and one from 
Vienna dated August 1st have arrived. I did not write on 
August 1st because there was no news.

The most interesting news is that Brill announces 
he is crossing to Europe at the end of this month to visit 
Professor and myself. Let us hope that a slow conversion 
will have correspondingly lasting effects.

There has been a stupid muddle about the question of 
American editors. When I wrote to Stern saying that 
Professor had accepted two of the three names sent from New 
York (Brill and Frink) but could not accept Farnell and 
begged him to get their President, Ames, to recommend another 
name, he replied that it was a matter for the Society and so 
could not be decided until that meeting in September. He 
also said that Brill had assured him that in my letter last 
November I had told him (Brill) that the New York Society  

had the sole decision. This is the reverse of the truth, for 
Professor read my letter before I sent it, and I enclose a per-
tinent extract from it herewith. In the meantime Ames had written 
to me asking for general information, and in my reply to him I 
begged him to make some decision himself, both so as to avoid 
personal feeling at a meeting, and also to enable us to print the 
names on the first number of Volume 2 of the Journal. When 
Frink was in London, I also arranged with him to write Ames simi-
larly, and a cablegram has just arrived from him saying that Ames 
recommends Oberndorf. I know that Oberndorf is acceptable to 
Professor, so have instructed Hiller to insert all the names on 
the title pages.

James McCann, the pirate of Professor’s alleged 
book on Dreams has offered to pay Unwin 250 dollars provided that 
the latter will countenance the continuation of the piracy. I 
refused to accept any such arrangement on behalf of Professor, and 
advised Unwin to refuse it also unless the other condition was also granted, 
namely that the remainder of the edition be destroyed. The vic-
tim of the latest American swindle is, I am sorry to say, Ferenczi. 
Badger has issued his Contributions in the following form: by using 
a different format and thick paper, he has pro- duced a volume 
larger than and more than twice as thick as the first edition. 
Then he has rechristened the book “Sex in Psycho-Analysis”, so as 
to cheat the public into buying it as a new and different book. 
I have written to him protesting against the use of Ferenczi’s 
name and my own in such an immoral manner.

No further news about the Clinic. Most people are 
out of town, including Glover.

Bp. A private letter to Ferenczi enclosed.

Wien. Could someone in Vienna send me a short review 
of Josephine Jackson’s book of which you spoke? By the way, we 
should make a regular arrangement about mutual book reviews of 
the Bibliothek and Library. The best way would be to have a book 
reviewed only once and for the Z. and J. to translate it respec-
tively. I have arranged for reviews of Putnam and the War Neuroses 
and will ask Róheim to review Flügel’s book. I have a review of 
Kolnai by my wife, but no others from the Bib- liothek.

Von Monakow certainly used to have a good practical know-
ledge of Ps-A. works, as I know from personal experience, but it 
seems to be for pri- vate consumption only. I doubt Pfister’s story 
that Jelliffe quarrelled with Jung; Jelliffe wrote a different 
account to me.

With best holiday wishes to all,

Ernest Jones.