29 February 192O  The Plat  Elsted

Dear Professor,

*IP4,0+Thank you for your letters of Feb. 8th and 12th, which I was glad to have.  You are right about my Father.  It is a significant change for a man to make from a *MDUL+Sohneinstellung*MDNM+ to a *MDUL+Vatereinstellung*MDNM+,*FN1.AAFrom a son's "outlook" to that of a father's.+ but it is being facilitated with me by the circumstance that my wife is now pregnant, at which we both rejoice.

I am familiar with H. Ellis' works and methods of repudiation; they are hard to deal with.  His address is not with me here, but I will send it on returning to town.  I enclose a review of *MDUL+Totem u. Tabu*MDNM+ by R.AR.AM., evidently Marett the Prof. of Anthropology at Oxford*FN1.AARobert R. Marett, Reader in Social Anthropology, Oxford University, see his review of Freud (1912‑13) in *MDUL+Athenaeum*MDNM+, no. 4685, pp. 205‑206, 13 February 1920.+ and leader of the pre‑animistic school of religious psychology.  Retribution has swiftly overtaken the Harvard Professor, Southard, who dealt so unfairly with your War article,*FN1.AASouthard (1919‑20).+ for he has just died of pneumonia, net 4.  Yesterday our dog, a specially valuable creature and one to which we were extremely attached, was suddenly killed in the lift.  And so the tale of death goes on.

Mrs. Putnam has given permission for the Press to make a book of her husband's |A/ papers,*FN1.AAPutnam (1921).+ and even offered to bear part of the cost (which I have gratefully accepted, suggesting a quarter, to be raised by her and his friends).

I have now cabled three times to Brill saying how urgently we need his article, for Rank cannot begin any printing till all the MS is collected.  The journal is eagerly awaited and should have a good sale.  I am only anxious lest Tannenbaum should steal our title, which would be hard to replace; he is sure to exploit the name |A/.  As to Bernays: perhaps my memory has made a tendencious alteration, but it tells me that when I saw you in October you had received B's offer but thought you could alter it in favour of the Press.  It is a great disappointment, for, having overcome the main difficulty, with Brill, I hoped we could begin on the projected Standard Edition of collected works, with just the *MDUL+Vorlesungen*MDNM+ and *MDUL+Fünf Vorlesungen*MDNM+ as the first volume.  Now our scheme is again postponed.  Could you at least ask Bernays that the Press receives the sole right to sell his translation in England: I have written to him offering him the American rights of the Press Library at 15%.

Daly's sister, whom I "treated" for two weeks, is one of the most disagreeable and objectionable women I have ever met, and I am not surprised at his wishing to break away from her.  The family history is very interesting, as also his pathetic but hopeless attempts to be taken for a gentleman.

I was most interested in the names of the subjects now occupying you.  In spite of its great frequency nothing much has been done on homosexuality in women.  I feel sure it is not a simple fixation, but a complex product, probably relating to the castration idea.  As to the mass psychology, I hope you will take serious account of Trotter's work,*FN1.AATrotter (1916), 2nd ed. 1919.+ which has a great vogue in England, for it is at least an attempt to deal with the nature of the *MDUL+repressing force*MDNM+*FN1.AA"Force" is doubly underlined.+, which we have rather neglected.  *MDUL+If*MDNM+ there is a herd instinct, however, how can one place it in our grouping, for it belongs neither to the ego nor the sex groups, yet has characters of both?

*IP0,0+              Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones.