INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHO‑ANALYSIS

                                 25 March 1926  London W1

Dear Professor,

I was very glad indeed that you like the first part of the OBITUARY and so may venture to hope that you will like the personal part at the end which is naturally most significant.  I am grateful for your comments and will mention them in order.

1. Reginald Allen was President of the American group when he was killed in the war.  See Proceedings of the Hague Congress, Zeitschrift 192O, S. 381.«FN1.××Jones (1926a), see Abraham (1927, p. 9).  The sentence referred to by Freud in the previous letter was left in tact.»

2. The record of length during which Abraham was President is, as you say, unimportant and can well be omitted.«FN1.××Jones (1926a), see Abraham (1927, p. 13).  The sentence was altered to read: "He held the Presidency of the Society from its foundation until his death."»

3. The mistake about Weimar and Munich came about as follows: At the end of the Weimar Congress Jung talked to me about the time when he would stand higher than you.  I was very astonished and naturally asked him why he did not analyse his father complex instead of trying to live it out in such an inappropriate way.  His mystical answer "It is my fate" showed me which way things were moving.  As you know, I was closely identified with Abraham in the opposition to Jung at Munich, but my opposition really began from Weimar.«FN1.××Jones (1926a), see Abraham (1927, p. 14).  The error was altered accordingly.  (The 3rd Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association was held in Weimar, 21‑22 September 1911; the 4th Congress in Munich, 7‑8 September 1913.)»

4. My memory was correct here, for I was in correspondence with Abraham over the choice of place for the 1914 Congress.  There is an official notice in the Korrespondenzblatt announcing that it would be held at Dresden on the 2Oth September, 1914.«FN1.×׫MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM», 2(1914):407.  The reference to Dresden (Jones, 1919) was left in tact , see Abraham (1927, p. 14).  Moreover, the choice of Dresden for the Congress of 1914 came up several times in the letters between Freud and Jones of early 1914.»  About the discussion that preceeded the choice of Budapest in 1918 I know nothing.

5. You will find that these points about the editorship are also correct as is recorded in the various volumes.«FN1.××Jones (1926a), see Abraham (1927, p. 15).»

6. The second part was dispatched on Tuesday, so that it should reach Vienna today or tomorrow and the final part accompanies this letter.  The retyping, correcting and revising have been more considerable work than might appear, but I can assure you that I have not lost a single moment from the beginning of the undertaking.  Everything else has been put aside for it.

Yours always,  [Ernest Jones]«FN1.××Not Jones's signature, but signed "Ernest Jones" and initialed by secretary.»