BRITISH PSYCHO‑ANALYTICAL SOCIETY

                                  31 July 1925  London W1

My dear Professor,

I was exceedingly disappointed to hear of your change of plans as regards the Congress, for your letter was the first intimation I had and I had fully counted on meeting you there.  It is fifteen months since I saw you last and I will try to make it possible for me to come to the Semmering either before or after the Congress. «FN1.××9th Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Bad Homburg, 3‑5 September 1925.»

I knew that Melanie Klein's work has met with considerable opposition in Vienna and also in Berlin, though more at first than later.  I regard the fact as indicating nothing but resistance against accepting the reality of her «FN1.××'Her' is crossed out and 'your' is written in the margin.

» conclusions concerning infantile life.  Prophylactic child analysis appears to me to be the logical outcome of psycho‑analysis.

I sent of course the copies of the Selbst­dar­stel­lung' to Lords Balfour and Haldane.  A formal acknowledgement came from the former but nothing from the latter.

With my best wishes for a pleasant and beneficial holiday,

Yours always,  Ernest Jones