«FR»13 September 1913  13 Princes Street  Cavendish Square  London W

«FL»Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»My thoughts are very much with you in the splendid city, recuperating in that sublime atmosphere from the passing pettinesses of a few days ago.  Still, on looking back, I think we have every reason to be satisfied with the events.  We achieved the main object of bringing some light into the muddled confusion of the Zurich people, and also demonstrated that there was more vital activity in the Vienna school than they seemed to imagine.  Our next task will be to go on with the clarification, and define the Zurich point of view more sharply, a task which they themselves should have fulfilled.  We shall not be able to devote ourselves freely to the progress of |×/ until we have shaken these impediments off.  It must be many years since you last had to defend in a public meeting the elementary principles of |×/ and I hope it gratified you to see that this time you had an active bodyguard to support you.

«IP4,0»I want to thank you again for your personal kindness to me.  To it I owe in a great measure the confidence I felt at the congress, also partly to the greater freedom from Angst«MDUL»«MDNM» resulting from my analysis, and partly to the considerable experience I have already had of such discussions.

I enclose a "petit document humain" from Putnam, which you might send on to Ferenczi, as I think it will interest him also.  The passages I have marked with a cross need no comment.  His tough stomach unhesitatingly rejects Jung's mish‑mash, in spite of the sprinkling of philosophy and ethics which might have deceived Putnam's palate.  He also sends me a dream of his own relating to incest with his daughter, thus confirming your surmise about the Griselda paper.«FN1.××i.e. that Putnam (1913) is largely autobiographical.

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Eder and I have arranged to found a London group next month, and expect to have perhaps a dozen members with the British members of the American Assoc. (Berkeley‑Hill, etc.).  In order not to leave the selection of new members to the society we will arrange that all names must first be passed by a committee, consisting of the President, Secretary and Vice‑President (who will probably be Bryan of Leicester).«FN1.××C. A. Douglas Bryan, M. D. 1900 London, especially interested in hypnotism, Honoary Secretary of the Psycho‑Medical Society, London, and charter member and first Secretary of the London Psycho‑Analytical Society, founded 30 October 1913.

»  We will be fairly strict, but at first shall have to pay as much attention to character and intentions as to "orthodoxy", and thus include men like Eder and Hart.  I think of inviting also Havelock Ellis and McDougall (Prof. of Psychol. in Oxford).  What would you say to this?

I am busy making arrangements for the English and American abstracts for the «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM», and hope that before the New Year this will be thoroughly organised.

Loe has been very much better and is throwing herself vigorously into the work of furnishing.  But she seems to have the need of an occasional explosion.  She brought home a stray kitten when I was away, overfed it, and then late last night gave it an overdose of purge as well as an enema.  The cat got a little twitching ‑‑ nothing in the least serious ‑‑ and because I took this at first lightly she flew into a most violent temper and outburst of hate.  Then she kept me for three hours running "urgent messages" as a punishment.  Bromide had to be fetched and a special syringe procured to administer it.  The weakest kind of morphia must be got in case it was needed ‑‑ it was safer to dilute weak morphia than the strong kind she had already!  Then hydrocyanic acid «MDUL»in case«MDNM» we wanted to kill the kitten quickly, etc., etc..  She certainly has the power of gratifying and developing the masochistic side of a man, but there are other love‑components that also have to be thought of!

I don't think Frau Hoesch‑Ernst will go to Vienna after all.  She seems to have transferred her affections to Ferenczi, and will perhaps go to him, as her lover, whom I know, refuses her permission to come to me, being afraid of my discovering his secret!

Please convey my salutations to the Palatine.  You will find that much work has been done there in the past year.

With kind regards to your sister‑in‑law and yourself  from  Jones.