15th May 1925

Dear Friends,

James Glover has recently given two brilliant lectures before scientific  
societies, one at Cambridge and one in London. His reputation is making deserved  
progress.

The Press campaign against us is at the moment less active, though two  
virulent articles, by Aldous Huxley and Sir Ronald Ross, have recently appeared  
in monthly magazines. We are contemplating taking more active and more system-  
atic steps to meet this “anti” propaganda. Homer Lane, the charlatan about whom  
I wrote previously, appealed against his conviction and the final verdict was  
given yesterday. The month’s imprisonment was remitted (he had already served  
eighteen days of it) and he is to leave England for ever within twenty-eight days.

On the other side. You may have seen that Lord Balfour in his speech at  
Jerusalem referred in a personally friendly tone to the three men who he considers  
have most influenced modern thought, all Jews – Bergson, Einstein and Freud. At  
a recent dinner of the Anglo-Austrian Society at which I was present Lord Haldane,  
the guest of the evening, dealt in his speech with the contributions made to  
culture throughout the ages by Vienna. The four names he singled out to represent  
this were Mozart, Beethoven, Mach and Freud. I wrote a complimentary letter to  
him afterwards.

We have made progress with completing the details of our scheme for a  
clinic here, but unfortunately are still held up by the need of a capital sum  
to acquire suitable accommodation; the latter item is extraordinarily costly in  
London.

BERLIN: You will of course let us know in good time when you want a list  
of the members attending the Congress. Most Societies finish work in June and  
after that it is not easy to get into contact with all members.

VIENNA: It was again gratifying to hear from Strachey, dear Professor,  
of your continued good health. We are greatly looking forward to seeing you at  
the Congress and can promise you that you will not be molested by the throng.  
Your business letter came yesterday and is being immediately attended to. Many  
thanks for making the matter quite clear.

I enclose some correspondence between McDougall and myself. The  
most interesting feature of it is the reversal of the relationship previously  
existing between psycho-analysis and academic psychology. Whereas previously we
 

could justifiably complain of the latter not taking our con-  
tributions into consideration in their general system of thought, now they seem to regard us  
as a complete system and complain that they are left out in the cold and  
insufficiently noticed by us!

You have received an advance copy of Vol. III of the Collected  
Papers. It is due to appear publicly today.

With warmest greetings to all,  
                           Yours always,

                          Ernest Jones