16 May 1933  81 Harley Street  London W1

Dear Professor,

Thank you very warmly for your kind greetings to the new arrival.  I am glad to say that both mother and child are doing very well.

I was very much interested in your discovery about the longing for rest, which I hope you will publish.  It appeals to me as being much more humanly comprehensible than a naked, unexplained, wish for death itself.  I can also give a slight confirmation from a minor sphere.  It is this.  Periodically I have had the same wish to retire from work as I remember your having at my age, and I have always noticed that these moods coincide with a feeling of inadequcy in respect of one's work.  Instead of work being a positive expression of one's wishes, it has for the time being reverted to the sense of obligation and duty no doubt originating in the need to assuage primal guilt.

We are of course anxious about your political situation.  Will you or Anna give due warning if you think there is any risk of letters being censored.  I have just heard, from the Embassy, that Mussolini is planning with the Pope and perhaps with France to engineer a Catholic movement that would result in Bavaria joining Austria and in the Rhineland being made autonomous.  That would be a wonderful thing for the peace of the world, but I fear it is a fanciful project.

We have many applications, including one from Reik, to come to work in England.  We quite warmly welcome such applicants, but the external situation is decidedly unfavourable.  Those who venture to apply personally will probably have a better chance.

With kindest greetings to you all,  Yours affectionately  Ernest Jones