April 19, 1922.

Dear Friends:

This letter is late because of Easter. I was away for five days, which incidentally 
enabled me to get on faster with the revision of the Sammlungen articles.

I regret to announce, if you do not already know of it, the news of Dr Rorschach’s 
death, I suppose the ablest of the Swiss. I sent an official letter of condolence to 
the widow in the name of the Association. Will Rank please arrange for an obituary in 
the Z, and I will have it translated for the J. Perhaps Sachs would do this?

I enclose the Tannenbaum review for Budapest.² The last number of his Journal con-
tains such scandalous and unpardonable personalities about Professor, and the whole 
affair is such a scurrilous rag which can have no standing whatever even in America, 
that I should like to ask the opinion of the Committee if it would not be more dignif-
ied on our part to ignore it altogether as being not a scientific periodical. Really, 
to review the various articles seems to me an impossible task; for each one demands 
an article equally long to contradict the gross misstatements and errors, which is 
certainly not worth while. To argue with every wretched opponent, whose influence is 
often transitory, is not only a physically impossible waste of energy and time, but 
also, as Professor has shown by his example, not the most dignified or successful 
course.

In the same connection I may say that Stanley Hall³ now regularly writes the 
rubric on Psa for the Amer. J. of Psychology, and makes a pretty mess of it. For in-
stance, a novel which violently attacks Psa, and incidentally gives a grotesque caric-
 

nature of myself, he praises for the author’s “remarkable interpretation of Psa”. On
the other hand he has detected the McCann fraud of the dream book and, full of a bad con-
science about his own theft of Gradiva, waxes indignant over anyone’s publishing a
translation of a scientific man’s works without his permission. The human mind is a
remarkable institution.

The New York World cabled to me for my opinion about the Coué cult in London,
which I gladly gave. As I expected, it is now rapidly subsiding.

Berlin. Many thanks for your kind congratulations about my son’s birth. I gave the
news in the Rundbrief of March 2. Did this letter not arrive? If not I will repeat
it, for it was a long one.

I hope Rank is attending to your need for paper; it comes from Wien.
Many thanks for the hints about Dr Garley. Such personal hints belong to the most val-
uable uses of the Rundbriefe. We have not yet heard of her in London.

The invitation to Peru was sent already last November and a positive reply re-
ceived in February. I notified them of the change of date several weeks ago. The invi-
tation to India also went in February, at the same time as the acceptance of the
Society. In my letters to-day at Harley St I saw one from Bose, but have not yet
read it. May I add, my dear Abraham, that I do not suffer from the Brill-Sachs disease.

There is no contradiction between the reception of Psa in certain scientific cir-
cles here and the public agitation of last winter. The latter was confined to the
cheap press. The reception in psychological circles seems to have partly personal
grounds. By working actively in the administration I secured a prominent voice in the
British Psychological Society, strongly aided by Flügel, and am well known personally
to that circle. On the other hand I have not had this success, or opportunity, among
the medical profession, where I regret to say Psa has no good name, at least among
the academic leaders, especially neurologists.

We have similar annoyances here to the one you mention with Dr Bondy. The only
 

consolation is that such people would not exploit Psa if it did not have something
valuable to exploit, which is becoming more and more widely recognised. Every imit-
ation is a tribute.

Budapest. May I suggest, as you complain of not having much news to put into your let-
ters, that you give us some of the scientific ideas of which you are so prolific. We
all agree, I am sure, that it would be valuable and interesting to develop the scient-
ific aspects in the letters, had one only more time.

Vienna. Two positive pieces of good news to begin with: The Vorlesungen book has at
last definitely appeared, the first of Professor’s to find a worthy translation in Eng-
lish. Secondly, the first of the Sammlungen articles was sent to press a week ago, and
more are shortly following. In this connection I wish to ask where the article from
the Zt. f. Hypnotismus, which did not appear in the Sammlungen and therefore not in
your list, should be placed in order. I am strongly in favour of making the collection
a complete one. As you know, it will already contain more than the 4 Bde of the Samm-
lungen, e.g. Case of Female Homosexuality, etc.

The news of the proposed Vienna Clinic was most interesting and more details
about it will be welcome, e.g. staff, etc.

In the last letter I hear for the first time about ausserordentliche Mitglieder
in the Vienna Society and should be interested to hear further about their status.
Do they pay the same subscriptions as the rest? Are their names on the membership
list?

May I suggest that if the Verlag delegates the publishing of psa literature to a
 

Hungarian firm you contract that the name of the Verlag should also appear on the title
page. This should be regarded as an advantage for any firm, and we must teach them in
all countries that it is so. Is there any chance of coming to an arrangement with the
Moscow firm? As I reported to you last year, I am told that the atmosphere in Russia
is   favourable for Psa.

With cordial greetings to all
yours always

Ernest Jones.