13 May 1914  69 Portland Court  London W

Dear Professor Freud,

I suppose you felt that Sachs would give me all the Vienna news, and he has given me a great deal.  So the Vereinigung affair is settled most satisfactorily for the time, but we must be prepared for more possibilities of trouble next.  Jung is not slain, only defeated temporarily.  He lectures in July before the British Medical Association.«FN1.××Jung (1914).

»  He will make a strong appeal in America and perhaps England, where the |×/ plant is as yet of tender growth.  On such grounds I hope very much that you will not weaken your «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM» Referat«FN1.××Freud (1914d).

» one iota, for its aim was not only concerned with the Vereinigung.

Sachs tells me that your health is again better, and that Ernst Wolfgang has overcome his original weakness, two pieces of good news, but that your youngest daughter has had difficulty in shaking off her cough; I hope that the sea air in England will remove the last traces of this, if any remain.«FN1.××References are to Freud's nephew, Sophie's son, and to Anna Freud who was about to visit England.

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I enclose the letters sent to me by Abraham.  Affairs do not look very bright in America, though I was glad to see that of the 13 papers announced in the programme of the American Psychopathological Association «MDUL»every one«MDNM» was on the topic of |×/ 11 being positive, and only 2 negative.«FN1.××The fifth annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association was held in Albany, N. Y., 6 May 1914.

»  MacCurdy, on whom I had built much hope, seems to have shewn a bad side in the Herbert Jones business (surely out of jealousy, for he is very homosexual), and this augurs badly for his |×/ activity where character is at least as important as intellect.  From Putnam I have not heard for two months, but I have written to him recently ‑‑ also asking permission to publish his last excellent paper in the «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM».«FN1.××Putnam (1914b).

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Loe wrote a long letter this week, after a three months' interval, but I should be glad to hear from you how much effect the sad news has had on her of the death of her aunt, who was really a splendid woman.  It was another case of death from ultimately psychical causes (do you remember talking to me on this subject once late at night?), as was that of Scott in the Antarctic expedition,«FN1.××Robert Falcon Scott (1868‑1812), naval officer, explorer, led the ill‑fated second expedition to the South Pole (1910‑1913).  The issue of his death from psychical causes is not readily apparent in his diaries, see «MDUL»Scott's Last Expedition: The Personal Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, C. V. O., R. N., on his Journey to the South Pole«MDNM», 2 vols. (London: Smith, Elder, 1913).» so I discover.  Loe's decision about her marriage did not surprise me, as it was the only reasonable course, and I am very glad of it.  I cannot be very optimistic about her future, however, since she will not give up the morphia, though I pray with all my heart that she may have some happy years.  Does she continue treatment until the end of your working time?

The story of Jekel's Arbeit was amusing, though a little annoying.  It may spur me to write my Napoleon book for the «MDUL»Schriften«MDNM», perhaps at the end of this year after the congress.«FN1.××Ludwig Jekels (1867‑1954), Viennese psychoanalyst, his short study of Napoleon (Jekels, 1914) inhibited Jones from publishing on the subject himself.»  Do you think I should sacrifice other work for this?

This summer I spend writing a small book on «MDUL»The Treatment of the Neuroses«MDNM» and in translating Ferenczi.«FN1.××Jones (1920b, 1916b).

»  Then I have signed the contract to produce next year (before the end) a large work on |×/ for a scientific, non‑medical public, and this will need an immense amount of work.«FN1.××See note 3 to letter 156.»  Besides these tasks I have enough of other smaller ones to occupy the spare time of my evenings.

«IP4,0»Sir Ed. Durning‑Lawrence has just died.«FN1.××Sir Edwin Durning‑Lawrence (1837‑1914), who died on 21 April, propagated a theory that Francis Bacon was Shakespeare, see his «MDUL»Bacon is Shakespeare«MDNM» (London and New York: Gay and Hancock, 1910).»  I dined with him a month or so ago,«FN1.××In Jones (1957a, p. 429; 1957b, p. 460) the year of the dinner is incorrectly given as 1913.

» and he assured me that Bacon wrote not only all Shakspere, but also all Spenser and Marlowe (whom he paid in the same way for the use of their names), as well as supervising the translation of the Bible!!  Peace to his ashes!  By the way, another contemporary set of references has been found in which the name is spelt Shà«MDUL»c«MDNM»kspere,«FN1.××The "c" is doubly underlined.» thus confirming what you told me about Jacques‑Pierre.«FN1.××See letter 20.»

Sachs is writing to you about London, with which he is enchanted.  I enjoy having him here.

Yours affectionately  Jones.