15 November 1931  81 Harley Street  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»Thank you for your kind words about my book.  It was re‑written for my personal interest, and I have no idea what impression it will make on others.  The third Part was destined originally for the «MDUL»Schriften zur angewandte Seelenkunde«MDNM» under the titel Die Mahre und die Mähre: ein psa ‑‑ etymologische Versuch.«FN1.××"The Mare and the Mara: A Psycho‑Analytical Contribution to Etymology," in Jones (1931b, pp. 241‑340).»  I suppose it is hardly worthwhile publishing it in German now, for I take it that the «MDUL»Schriften«MDNM» series is no longer continued?

I am greatly looking forward to your «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM» papers, which are presumably clinical.  Although I have ten patients a day, I find it hard to be sure that any generalisations I make are not based on too narrow material, and that one needs to practise for several centuries to get enough experience!  | / itself as a movement will certainly need that time to make a social impression.  The view of the Unconscious at close quarters is so different from any conscious description that one sometimes despairs at being able to convey it to the outer world, so we must wait till the individuals of that world are, one by one, analysed!  But I suppose we shall establish gradual contact between the two worlds.

There is no special news of the Society, which means that they are all working satisfactorily and zealously.  Rickman has returned, but he does not make the best impression in spite of all Ferenczi's efforts; there must be a very abnormal primary constitution.

My wife and I had hoped to take a short holiday in January in Vienna and Semmering, but the economic crisis, which reverses the old relation between the two shillings, has made such plans uncertain.  I am finding the English winters increasingly trying as I grow older, especially in respect of uninterrupted pain from rheumatism.  My family is extremely well, and we have the great joy of that very rare phenomenon ‑‑ a normal infant who enjoys life to the full.

From various sources I have heard that your health is much better than in last spring and I will also hope that your discomfort will get less as the local condition gets better adapted.

With the warmest personal regards  Yours affectionately  Ernest Jones