January 11th, 1922.  

Dear Friends:  
Let me begin by thanking Rank very warmly for the copy of his Mythus der Geburt  
and congratulating him on the value of the new production. As several of us know, it is  
often nearly as much work to revise a second edition, especially when as here it doubles the size of the first one, as to write a new book, and I am sure we all greet Rank’s  
reappearance as an author, after this enforced interlude, with a joyful welcome, for to  
produce such a book means being able to devote time to serious scientific work.  

Hiller has unfortunately been ill in bed with bronchitis during his Xmas holid-  
ays, and has only just reached London. He makes a good impression and has evidently  
"grown in stature" in every respect during his year in Vienna. We have much to discuss  
about the Press, etc, of which I will write later. The double number of the Journal,  
Part 3–4, arrived today, so that we have now at last caught up our arrears.  

Delgado writes to me that he intends coming to the Congress this year.  
Tansley, the Cambridge Professor whose favourable book I reviewed in the J., spent an  
evening with me last week. He is an able man, with a very open mind, and I have great  
hopes of him. He has arranged to go to Vienna at the end of March, provided that Prof- 
essor will be able to take him then for analysis, which I sincerely hope will be poss-  
ible.  

Miss Saxby of Cardiff has attended our last two meetings and I have seen something of  
her privately. She seems able, but still somewhat inhibited. I think she is entirely  
with us and will be useful in many ways. Her reports of the local Cardiff group are  
not promising for the moment, as the people evidently know very little.  

McCann has made a final villainous offer about Professor’s pirated Dream Psycholo-
 

gy, saying that it would be best for Professor to give him the right to call the book  
"authorised translation", for otherwise other people would pirate it. I enclose in the  
Vienna letter his letter and my reply to it to Unwin. Unwin is now ill, but I expect  
we shall proceed with the public denunciation that Professor already knows of. I trust  
that this will meet with your approval. By the way, Brill tells me that Tridon, who  
arranged the book, has brought a libel action against him for calling him a quack.  

A propos quack. A well-known one in London boasted that the Queen had arranged with
him to conduct a psycho-analysis on the Prince of Wales on his return from India, this  
to be kept secret from the King. Most likely the story is true, so Bryan and I wrote  
to the Queen’s private secretary pointing out the dangers of the procedure; we received 
a grateful acknowledgement.  

Havelock Ellis wants me to be a member of the committee for the Internat. Congress  
for Sexual Studies to be held at Rome this year. Who knows about the standing of this  
Congress? Is it the usual homosexual movement for the abolition of 175?  

I have not heard yet from Wulff, nor any further from Bose in Calcutta.  
Tomorrow I am lecturing on Psa before the London Pharmacists’ Association, and am cur-  
ious to learn what they want to know about the subject, as it takes the bread out of  
their mouths.  

From the Wheeler article, which I mentioned in a recent article, I quote the foll-  
owing sentence for the amusement of the members. "Many of the rose-water psychologies  
of the academic school read as if they had been composed by beings who had been born  
and bred in a belfry, castrated in early infancy and fed continually for fifty years  
through a tube with a stream of liquid nutriment of constant chemical composition".  

Berlin. I do not see how we can postpone the question of the Treasurer until the Con-  
gress, for something must be done in the meantime about the collecting and keeping of
the subscriptions. Why not, at least temporarily, adhere to the arrangement we made  
last Spring?
 

The question, my dear Abraham, was simply about the distinction in meaning between  
Position and Einstellung (der Libido).  

Bp. Your devil explanation is negatived by the fact that nearly all the descriptions in  
question come from women, not men.  

W. I did not find the lecture you read me, my dear Otto, on the poor quality of the  
Journal particularly helpful, for I provide already plenty of self-criticism myself.  
Nor do I know anything about the good American articles you hint I should have pub-  
lished instead of what you politely describe as the transatlantische Mist in the  
Journal. It would be more helpful if you guided some of them in my direction.  

I shall be eager to hear something of the lectures given in Vienna and have  
no doubt they were a great success.  

With the heartiest good wishes for the New Year to all  
yours cordially  
Ernest Jones