Dec. 2. 1923  
Dear Friends:

It was sad to hear of Professor’s set-back, but we may hope that by now he has  
again convalesced and thoroughly consolidated his recovery.  

I am waiting for an answer from Sándor to my letter, so will say no more about  
this matter at the moment.  

From here the chief news is that the course of lectures to the Sociological Soc-  
iety — by J. Glover, Flügel, Eder, B. Low, Miss Sharpe and myself — have come to a  
successful conclusion. The audience of some 200 maintained their interest through­out.  
Of the lectures Miss Sharpe’s was much the best and was really excellent. Williams  
and Norgate offered to publish the lectures in book form “Psa and the Social Science”  
and an agreement has been signed. I am to edit them, write a preface, etc.  

I have accepted an invitation to contribute to a Festschrift arranged for Morton  
Prince’s seventieth birthday, and in view of the changed title of his Journal (Abnor-  
mal Psychology and Social Psychology) have decided to write on the relations between  
these two sciences from a psa point of view.  

Max’s most interesting letter about his travels was very welcome. I have also had  
a long letter from Laforgue, adding further details. He seems to be a very active  
and ambitious man and if he identifies himself enough with our cause ought to be  
able to be of great assistance. I hold it, how­ever, to be very important that efforts  
be made to establish as close contact with him as we can (Max, Otto, etc). He seems  
willing to do this and offered even to come to London to visit me. I responded  
warmly. He asked to become a member of the Internat. Assoc., and I suggested he

should choose between joining Vienna, Berlin, London, or Switzerland.  

We would probably all agree with Sándor’s doubts about the union of Psa activit-  
ies with State officialism, but surely we must recognise that Russia is in these  
matters in a special position and that we have no choice unless we want to taboo  
all Russian Psa.  

Thank you, l. Otto, for the reference to the Criterion article, of which I had  
not heard. The Australasian Journal is not important. The only point is that they  
devoted a special number of their new (psychological) journal to Psa, but they did  
not take the trouble to get contributions from anyone with a knowledge of the subject.  
The papers are written by Australians and are full of the usual silly criticism.  
No one in that country has a real knowledge. I have it much on my mind how to intro-  
duce Psa there, and there are possibilities of one or two men coming to Europe to be  
trained. At present, however, nothing definite.  

Cordially  
Ernest Jones