19 November 1913  69 Portland Court  London W

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»I am hoping that my saying about Jung may be more than a jest.  He communicates with Mrs. Eder, whom I saw last night, and they take the view that he would be glad to dissolve the Vereinigung if only he could get your consent!  They are bringing pressure to bear on him in this direction, so it is possible that, if we are cautious and silent, what we wish may be brought about from the other side.  Jung is probably impatient at the remaining bonds between Zurich and Vienna, and may be glad to go his own way quite independently.

Dr. Constance Long, our fourth London member, and Drs. Young (Omaha) and Hamill (Chicago), of the American Assoc., are going to Jung to be analysed.  He is helped much by his knowledge of English, and also by having an English‑speaking woman (Moltzer).«FN1«MDNM».××Constance Long, M. D. 1896 Brussels, translated Jung (1916b).  George Alexander Young, M. D. 1900 Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, specialist in neurology and psychiatry.  Ralph C. Hamill, M. D. 1902 Rush Medical College, University of Chicago, later Assistant Professor of Nervous and Mental Disorders, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago.  Maria (Mary) Moltzer (1874‑1944), professional nurse, trained with Jung, co‑translator of Jung (1913b); later, practised Analytical Psychology.

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I was impressed by your remark about Putnam, etc., seeking gratification rather than science, and the episode shows how novel and insecure the scientific attitude still is in the world.  Your own rigid adherence to it has always called forth my admiration.  Progress in culture has always meant renunciation of wish‑phantasies, with courage in facing and accepting cold reality, and mankind is for the most part nothing if not timid.

I am not sure whether it will be best for me to visit you in Berlin or in Vienna.  The distance is not very important.  In the former case I see only Abraham, whose attitude seems similar to my own, while in the latter case I see Ferenczi, Rank, Sachs, Hitschmann and Heller, also Loe.

Now some personal news, partly bad, partly good, and the bad first.  Namely it is almost certain that I cannot hold my professorship in Toronto any longer.  In spite of the Dean's promise to me, the Board of Governors, certainly instigated by malign influences, have decided that to do so I must practise in Toronto for ten months of the year.  I have sent in my resignation and it will probably be accepted.  The Board were told that I could attend only for the last six weeks of the session, whereas I had offered to come at any time of the year and for as long as I was wanted for my work.«FN1.××The University official's had good grounds for rejecting Jones's proposal that he live in London and continue to teach his six‑week course in psychiatry at the University of Toronto in order to retain his title as Associate Professor.  They simply felt that if Jones could not live and practise his profession in Toronto, then he should not continue to hold his professorship (Paskauskas, 1985, pp. 218‑219). »  Do you think I could retain a "courtesy title" for a short time?  In a couple of years I hope to have another one in England.  While I regret all this, it has a few compensatory advantages (less expense, continuity of practice, etc.).  I shall perhaps visit America for the meetings every two or three years, but not next year.

Six patients more have come to me for treatment, two from America.  Only one or two of these are suitable cases, some being paraphrenics, others having no money, but it is very cheering and I feel quite confident about making my way in practice.  I seem to be well received here, and have had many letters of welcome; today, for instance, the Secretary of the Neurological Society,«FN1«MDNM».××There were two Honorary Secretaries of the Neurological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine: T. Grainger Stewart and H. Campbell Thomson.» whom I do not know well, writes inviting me to dine with him.

Walter Scott, the publisher, has accepted my higher terms for the book in Ellis' series, and I am signing an agreement to produce it before the end of next year.  That will mean hard work, for I want to do it well.«FN1.××Jones was to do a book on psychonanalysis for Havelock Ellis's Contemporary Science Series, however, after the First War broke out the project was abandonned.

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I am exceedingly comfortable in my flat, which is now entirely furnished except for an important item ‑‑ a photograph of yourself.  May I beg for a particular one?  One taken «MDNM»about eight years ago, where you look to the right (a side face) with folded arms and of course a cigar.  You know how much pleasure it would give me to have one of you (I have nothing excepot the «MDUL»Zentralblatt«MDNM» copy).  If possible I should like a large copy, as I wish to hang it on the wall framed as a picture (photograph about 12 x 16 cm.).

Loe is a little less angry with you, but is expecting you to "apologise for breaking the agreement". She was leaving definitely this week, but must again postpone it for at least a week because yesterday she burst a vein in her leg and has to stay in bed (obedient for once).

With kindest regards  Yours sincerely  Jones.

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