July 3, 1922.

Dear Friends:

I have to change my consulting room soon and do not know my next address, so it  
will be safer to send letters to my house, 42 York Terrace, London, N.W.1.  
Brill writes that he is coming to Europe, but does not expect to stay so late as  
the Congress, as his lectures begin in the middle of September; I have pressed him  
to make a special effort. Bose also writes that no one is coming from India. Next  
week Flügel and I will discuss the programme. I suppose we may put down Professor  
for “Thema vorbehalten”? Abraham kindly sent me a picture of the Congress arrange-  
ments. I think they are excellent and quite agree with every point except one,  
which I should like to submit for discussion. He allows the Monday and Tuesday all  
day, with Wednesday morning also, for scientific papers, i.e. 18 hours, and leaves  
the Business meeting till 4 on Wednesday, just before the banquet. I find that the  
amount of scientific papers would be too tiring and that there is hardly room for  
the business, of which there may be a great deal and which is the only opportunity  
for speakers to blow off steam by discussion. What do you think of having the busin-  
ess on the Wednesday morning, continued if necessary in the afternoon? I should be  
glad, my dear Abraham, to accept your suggestion that the programmes be printed in  
Berlin; you will by now have received the cheque from Flügel.  

You will have heard of Tridon, the N.Y. swindler. McCurdy, who is spending  
the summer in England, says he should not last long, for he is sure some enraged  
husband or father will shoot him. Tridon sent me this week the enclosed letter, to
 

which I shall of course send no answer. He will save us the trouble of circularis-  
ing America with my notice (J.114) and will know better than I do where to send  
it. Isn’t he an insolent rascal?  

May I be allowed to say a word about Abraham’s warmth about Rank? It is certain  
that Rank’s comments could not have been personally intended in the sense Abraham  
thinks. We must by now all know that it is a quality of Rank’s to express his  
thoughts in a forcible, and not always discriminating manner. It is an idiosyn-  
crasy of his that we should willingly allow him if it gives him pleasure. Some-  
times the blows fall on Ferenczi’s head, often on mine, and at times in Berlin.  
I have always admired the sunny urbanity with which Ferenczi receives them and  
have striven to imitate such an excellent ideal. So let me counsel you, my dear  
Abraham, to smile back and Rank will at once be as amiable as ever.  

I suppose others have also received De Saussure’s excellent book on technique?  
I would suggest that Ferenczi writes a review of it (as it belongs to his task to  
write on “alles wichtige”), which we would also translate for the J. I am having  
Jelliffe and Prescott reviewed, but hope that Rank will be able to review Jell-  
iffe’s book on the drama.  

Wien. Best congratulations, my dear Otto, on the second edition of the Mythenforsch-  
ung. I think it is a very good idea to divide this particular book into two, as  
you have done, and suggest that we do the same in the English translations. How  
you have found time to write the Don Juan legend I cannot imagine. Please tell me  
if this will appear in book form with other papers, or should it be separately  
translated for the J. I also beg for a card about Dr Barkas: should I invite her  
to the Congress.  

With best wishes for pleasant holidays,  
       Ernest Jones