January 21st, 1922
Dear Friends:

The chief news here is of a business nature and I hasten to say that the result is 
highly satisfactory. Hiller was detained, first by illness then by business complic-
ations, but leaves for Vienna tomorrow morning. The business delays and obstructions
had become impossible, and I have only waited for Hiller’s visit to make some radical
alteration. Our first solution, to transfer the address and some of the work to Unwin,
leaving Barbara Low to continue with most of the correspondence, was prevented by Un-
win’s refusal to enter into any closer relations with us. He had much police difficulty
with the „Tagebuch“ some time ago and only his influence and prestige saved him. How fort-
unate it was that the Press did not publish that translation, which would certainly
have had disastrous results. Unwin has evidently not recovered from the shock and so
wishes to maintain a cool distance. Then I succeeded in persuading Barbara Low to give
up the work by promising her other compensations, and we have now arranged a competent
secretary, Miss Hulme, all time, the Press paying half her expenses and I the other
half for my own work. She will call daily at New Cavendish St for the post and will cert-
ainly transact the business far more accurately and promptly than it has ever been
done before. In addition she will be able to take much work off Hiller’s shoulders,
e.g. the book-keeping, and so set him free for his other duties. She can also do the
re-typing of articles, etc, and he may thus be able to dispense with his Vienna sec-
retary.

W. Bowen of Lausanne has just sent me a „Psa“ of Alexander the Great for the Journal
(in French). De Saussure, who wrote a recommending letter, mentions that there is

not yet a French Psa Journal. We must listen for news of any attempt to start one, and  
be ready to enter the field the moment we think the time opportune. Evidently matters  
are moving much faster in France than one could have anticipated, as is indicated by  
the en- closed cutting.  

I have been nominated as President of the Society for Medical Psychol- ogy (Medical  
Section of the British Psychological Society) and have got Bryan put on the Council,  
so that we shall have still more influence in the surrounding world.  

Professor’s portrait is in this week’s „Sphere“, the cutting is enclosed.  
I want to raise again the matter of the Society Reports which we discussed in September.  
As arranged, I got Flügel to write around urging a regular quarterly report from each  
society at the same time and on similar lines, but we omitted to make any arrangement  
for checking this. Legally Flügel and I are responsible for the Korrespondenzblatt, but  
some of the reports are sent here and others direct to Vienna, so that no one person  
knows which are late. In such cases the dilatory society is not written to by anyone  
to press for the report. I should like Rank’s opinion about the neces- sary arrangement  
that must be made. Could he make himself responsible for certain societies and I for  
others, or had they better all pass through a single hand (Flügel’s)? In both these  
cases there would be a delay for the opposite Journal, or Zeitschrift, but it would  
be the same in both events. I think the matter is important, for it would be highly  
satisfactory to have regular concurrent and up-to-date reports from every society.  

I am despatching my photograph to Ferenczi and Eitingon. If there is any  
chance of obtaining one of von Freund I should of course like to have one too.  
Vienna. Hiller takes with him, u.a., a contribution from Herbert which might be worth 
inserting in the Kindersammelbuch. Will you please tell me the name of the publisher  
of Baudouin’s new book. I have written to America to secure the rights of the Fünf  
Vorlesungen, which we must of course re-publish. Trotter is sending the second edition  
of his book to Professor, and there will be time for a Nachtrag to appear in the  
 

English translation of the Massenpsychologie, which would be very valuable. A propos,  
Tansley suggests that a little more stress might have been laid on the homosexual  
component in the bond uniting the group, a view which Professor has other places hinted  
at, and which might round off the conception more completely.  

The Gradiva affair is very complicated. Moffat Yard gave the usual answer to Un-  
win that they accepted the translation in all innocence, believing that the translator  
had the rights, which Brill tells me he never gave to anyone. You may remember that  
by the Berne convention such a book loses all copyright if no translation appears within  
ten years (which also applies to the first three volumes of the Kleine Schriften), and  
any translation appearing after that time then secures copyright. Now the Gradiva trans-  
lation appeared in 1917, i.e., in less than ten years from the end of the year in which  
the original appeared (which is the wording of the law), so that Deuticke could have  
prosecuted them. On the other hand, America was then already in the War, when such  
laws did not hold. How the matter now stands is hard to say without consulting a lawyer.  
Probably Unwin can publish this translation, but could not prevent us making a complete-  
ly new one.  

Also I do not think you are quite right, my dear Otto, in saying that Jelliffe had  
no right to publish the further articles from the later Sammlungen. Apart from the  
fact that they appeared in 1920, when America was still „at war“ with Austria, Brill  
owned the translation rights and transferred them legally to him. All that is missing  
is the slight formality of paying Deuticke and Professor for the use of the articles,  
one which Jelliffe has apparently overlooked and should be reminded of by Deuticke.  
They want ten dollars from us for the right to use the articles we want and I think  
we shall have to pay them.  

With all cordial greetings,  

Ernest Jones  

[Handschriftlicher Nachtrag:]
PS Please tell me your opinion of the articles by Feldman, Herman, Schielder.