29th Feb. 1924  

Dear Friends,  

My Paper before the Royal Anthropological Institute was well  
attended and has broken the ice in anthropological circles in England, though  
as was to be expected, it met with considerable opposition.  

I see that the American Psychological Association held a symposium  
at their annual December meeting on the contribution of Freudianism to  
Psychology. There were four rapporteurs, none of them analysts; I have not  
yet seen any reports of their papers.  

I am at present negotiating with Messrs. Williams & Norgate for  
the plan of their continuing the psycho-analytical “Library Series”, but have  
not yet had any definite answer.  

BERLIN. Since both Sandor and Otto fall out, I hope that you (l. Karl)  
will act as Korreferent with Hanns and perhaps Alexander or Rado.  

VIENNA. I hope (l. Otto) that your throat is already better. I enclose  
a copy of my paper on Social Psychology and will send you a copy of the  
anthropological one in a week or so. By the way, have you heard nothing of  
Malinowski?  

You have quite invented the idea of any Verwunderung die auftauchte  
about the symposium in the London letter of February 1st. or in any later one.  
You have only to refer again to that letter to see that it contained nothing
 

more than an official and surely courteous invitation to Sándor, Otto and  
Hanns equally to participate in the symposium. The only doubt was whether  
both you and Sándor would speak together, and I find it quite natural that, on  
hearing of Sándor’s declining, Karl should assume that you would act in this  
capacity. I am sure that he will regret as much as I do your double refusal,  
for there is much we should like to hear from you which is not contained in  
your books, particularly on the side of technique. However, we may still hope  
that you may play a part later in the discussion.  

With cordial greetings to all,  
Yours sincerely,  
Ernest Jones