BRITISH PSYCHO‑ANALYTICAL SOCIETY

                               28 October 1924  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»I am much obliged to you for correcting the historical errors.  It just shows how easily they can creep in when one makes a condensed statement in which similars are treated as identicals.  I knew the facts you remind me of, though they were not in my mind when I wrote.  The difference between a decision at the time of the Congress and one which was an immediate reaction to it (as a set‑off to the «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM») was not great enough to force itself on my consciousness.  Similarly, although the idea of the «MDUL»Zentralblatt«MDNM» emanated from Adler and Stekel, you accepted the responsibility of appearing before the public as the founder; if matters had gone as we then expected them to, the word «MDUL»herausgegeben von«MDNM» would in time have surely been replaced by begründet von [»gegründet von].However, when I got your letter yesterday I telephoned at once to the printer and was just in time to get the passage altered.

I am glad that my review of Wittels was fairly satisfactory.  It was originally more severe, but Mrs. Riviere and my wife both thought it too much so, so I slightly softened it.«FN1.××Jones (1924c).  Fritz Wittels (1880‑1950), Viennese psychoanalyst; had a falling out with Freud around 1910; after Freud's comments on the biography (Wittels, 1924) he became active in the psychoanalytic movement, especially in New York from 1928 on.

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We are, as you may expect, sorry that your chapter "In These Eventful Years" had to appear in an American guise.  Some of the expressions you are made to use are decidedly undignified, and therefore clash with our conception of you.«FN1.××Freud (1924f).»

Last night I gave the opening address before the Oxford University Psychological Society, about 1OO people in the audience, and had a considerable success.  The subject was The Relation of Analysis to Determinism, Personality and Responsibility.«FN1.××Jones (1924f).

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Abraham and I are corresponding about the site of next year's Congress.  No doubt he has written to ask your opinion about it.  What is the likelihood of your attending personally?  Your presence would be an inestimable encouragement and pleasure.

With kindest regards,  Yours always,  Ernest Jones