November 1st, 1921

Dear Friends:

Budapest is missing this time, which was perhaps to be expected in the circumstances. 
We may congratulate Ferenczi that matters were not worse in his Fatherland, which they 
might easily have been had it not been for the good sense of the inhabitants.

The outstanding news this time from London is that I have just received a letter from 
Brill, very friendly and asking what work he can do for the Journal. He left two bags 
in France as a Symptombehandlung and intends to return in December and spend some time 
with me. I am of course sending him a cordial invitation to be my guest.

Then came a vaguely optimistic letter from Frink, saying that things were going all 
right at present, though he expected trouble in the future; he gives no details. The 
lady does not seem to be very wise if Brill’s statement is true (it does not seem to be 
altogether a secret now) that she is telling everyone that Professor advised the div-
orce as a prophylactic against a nervous breakdown. Brill takes the matter as very 
serious and I fear he may be right.

A little while ago I was asked by our Foreign Office if I could guarantee a person 
called Krasso (?), a Hungarian lady who wanted permission to come to England from New 
York to study with me. Apparently she had given my name as a reference, but I could only 
reply that though the ap- plication might be a genuine one I had never heard of the lady. 
Now I hear from another American lady that she has since gone to Vienna and Budapest and I should be interested to 
hear if anyone has come across her. She has a millionaire uncle in America who will do 
anything for her.

Rivers seems to have taken my review of his book badly, for I am told that when he read 
a paper this week at a Society he announced that he had come prepared for a controversy 
with me, and then proceeded to make a mocking attack on the Jenseits.

Berlin. The tendency to cliques in our Society is so far confined to three neurotic 
women, Dr Cole, Miss Low, and Mrs Rivière, among whom I have to hold a balance. Naturally 
also the Brunswick Sq[uare] people hold together, but in no way that is directed against the 
rest. At one of the subgroup meetings temporarily instituted by Dr Cole, Forsyth made 
his appearance, knowing that I would not be present, which looks like seek- ing a back-
door admission.

Many thanks, my dear Abraham, for the kind messages brought by Glover, whom I have invit-
ed to our next meeting. I enclose a letter from my wife to yours.

Vienna. I have not seen the Tic discussion. If you think it suitable to publish also in the 
J., where we published a translation of Ferenczi’s article, would you please ask Oberndorf 
to translate it. He wrote to me recently asking for some work to do. If Rickman progresses 
well with his present analysis I shall suggest that he be made a third assistant editor 
for England. He is the only person I know who might be qualified to help me in the rev-
ision of translations and articles, where I badly need help. But that must wait for the 
present. We have not yet received Flügel’s book, which was said to have ready six 
weeks ago. I suggest that either Rank or Róheim review it, as it deals much with Kultur-
geschichte. You ask about the Massenpsychologie. I finished correcting the translation 
last August and there is no reason why it should not already be in the press; Strachey of 
course has the MS in Vienna. Kegan Paul had the impudence to ask me to write a preface for 
the Leonardo which they have just bought from Moffat Yard. I replied by asking whether 
the translation rights were authorised from Professor and Deuticke, justifying my question 
by saying I had heard from Jelliffe that K[egan] P[aul] had bought the rights of the Hitschmann 
translation (also with a preface from me) from Moffat Yard, who hasn’t them to sell, as 
they belong to Jelliffe alone. They answered by sending me a sworn statement from N.Y. 
assuring them that they owned all rights of the books in question, to which I sent a 
sharp reply.

Cordially,

Ernest Jones.