INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO‑ANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION

                                  27 June 1935  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»It was such a pleasure to receive your kind letter a couple of weeks ago.  I am sure you are right in the inference you draw from the Royal Society of Medicine's action which we were all very delighted to hear of.  This is confirmed by the fact that it was a spontaneous action on their part, no analyst being concerned in it, and that the proposal was quite unanimously accepted.  Though it does not add to the actual number of letters after your name we shall be able to print on the next book 'Hononary «MDUL»[sic]«MDNM» Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine'.

This brings me to the immediate purpose of my letter, namely, to ask you whether you will agree to sell to the Hogarth Press for inclusion in our International Psycho‑Analytical Library series the English rights of your «MDUL»Autobiography«MDNM» and '«MDUL»Hemmung, Symptom und Angst«MDNM»'.«FN1.××Freud (1925d), trans. James Strachey, and Freud (1926d), trans. Alix Strachey 1936.

»  I have seen your excellent postscript of the «MDUL»Autobiography«MDNM» and presume that Strachey will deal with it.«FN1.××Freud (1935a), trans. James Strachey.»  The '«MDUL»Hemmung, Symptom und Angst«MDNM»' would of course need a proper new translation before we publish it and I hope that we should be able to persuade Strachey to undertake this also.  So by and by we shall recover the lost ground in providing a worthy translation of your work; it seems strange that we should be behind Spain in this respect.

I think Wälder was wise in postponing his visit to London till the autumn so as to have more time for a full preparation.«FN1.××Robert Waelder presented "Problems in Ego‑Psychology," to The British Psycho‑Analytical Society, 18 November 1935.»  It is puzzling me to know what will happen if he '«MDUL»geht versichert weg«MDNM»' ‑‑ an allusion I am sure you will understand ‑‑ but I suppose the contingency is not very likely to arise.«FN1.××If he "goes away insured" implies that Jones felt Waelder might run the risk of being converted to the London side of the issues, which are dealt with in Jones (1935).  The allusion is to the story of the pastor and the insurance agent in Freud (1915a, p.165): "The insurance agent, a free thinker, lay at the point of death and his relatives insisted on bringing in a man of God to convert him before he died.  The interview lasted so long that those who were waiting outside began to have hopes.  At last the door of the sick‑chamber opened.  The free‑thinker had not been converted; but the pastor went away insured ["«MDUL»geht versichert weg«MDNM»," «MDUL»G.W.«MDNM» 10:314]."»

Ernst is occupied at present in, amongst other things, designing a new wing for my cottage in Sussex.  Although it is a small matter it is surprisingly complicated and that gives me an opportunity for the highest admiration of his extraordinary ingenuity and masterly efficiency.  It is a rare treat to come across such a high standard of capacity in any work.«FN1.××The preceding two paragraphs were added to a second version of this letter, after being sketched out in shorthand at the end of the first version. »

I am looking forward to seeing Anna and Eitingon at the Paris Conference next month,«FN1.××A reference to a planned meeting of the International Training Committee in July, which in the end had to be cancelled.» for these days we need more than ever as close contact as possible.

With kindest regards  Yours always  Ernest Jones