24 April 192O  The Plat  Elsted

Dear Professor,

*IP4,0+Please let me thank you again for all your kindness during our stay in Vienna, your hospitality, and the inspiration you gave me during our all‑too‑few talks.  Nothing has taken me back to past days so much as that wonderful evening when you discoursed to me of your new ideas and plans; they will find a fruitful soil in me, you may be sure.

As there is an increased danger of American piracy (Tannenbaum and Jelliffe), will you give us permission to translate and issue your papers on |A/ technique from the Vierte Folge as a separate volume in the Press Library?  After that I should like to do the same with the series on metapsychology.*FN1*MDNM+.AA*MDUL+Sammlung*MDNM+, vol. 4 1918 and the metapsychological papers were included in *MDUL+Collected Papers*MDNM+, 2, 4.

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Forsyth's resistances seem to have even increased during the interval, I am sorry to say, and I have loss [lost] all hope of his remaining with us (unless he can continue his analysis).  On my return the editor of the *MDUL+British Journal of Psychology*MDNM+ telephoned to say F. had sent him his long essay on the new‑born infant, and noticing it had been read before the |A/ Society he wanted to know if he was right in accepting it, as he had thought that such articles belonged to our *MDUL+Journal*MDNM+.*FN1.AAThe article did not appear in the *MDUL+British Journal of Psychology*MDNM+ or the *MDUL+Journal*MDNM+, see David Forsyth, "The Rudiments of Character: A Study of Infant Behaviour," (Read before The British Psycho‑Analytical Society, 15 May 1919), *MDUL+Psychoanalytic Review*MDNM+*MDUL+*MDNM+, 8(1921):117‑143.+  I thanked him for his courtesy, and said I would sound F. and let him know.  On my asking F. at the next society meeting whether this article was yet ready for press, he became very guilty and ashamed and lied by saying "I don't know; I haven't seen it for a long time".  I said no more.  My impression is that he is not open to any form of appeal, only to direct threats ‑‑ and that only temporarily.  After that came the following correspondence, which speaks for itself.*FN1.AAThere are about fifteen letters between Jones and Forsyth of February, March, and April 1920 in the Archives of The British Psycho‑Analytical Society, London.  These indicate that Forsyth was also concerned about Jones's handling of the issue of donations for starting up the *MDUL+Journal*MDNM+.+  Whether you will write to him or wait for him to write to you, you will of course decide.  With regard to his withdrawal of the article now printed for the first number I am strongly of the opinion that, having a moral and legal right to it, we should publish it in any case.*FN1.AAThis article was not published in the *MDUL+Journal*MDNM+, see David Forsyth, "Psycho‑Analysis of a Case of Early Paranoid Dementia," *MDUL+Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine*MDNM+, Psychiatry Section, 13‑3(1920):65‑81.+  We have nothing further to hope for from him, and to yield to him would be disastrous as regards his next demands.

May I ask your help in the following difficulty?  Rank's salary, which never was a big one, has so diminished in buying‑value as to make his existence very precarious, and he has resigned from the Budapest paper so as to have more time for us.  By all equity the English Press should pay him a special salary, but there is the obvious difficulty that it has no money for itself.  I suggested therefore that he should take ,50 a year from me as part of my donation to the Press.  He absolutely refused, although I pointed out how much more satisfactory it is for money to come, when possible, from *MDUL+within*MDNM+ the Committee, for an outside donor (a Mrs. MacCormick) might want to influence our action.  Now I think I see a way of forcing him, if you will support me.  I want to give to the Press a proportion (about a quarter or fifth) of what my Father left me.  I do not yet know the exact amount, but I think it should not be far short of ,1OOO (the donation, I mean).  I told Rank of this, but he remained obdurate, so don't you think the gift could be made conditional on his behaving reasonably?

Loe had a dictatorial neurotic talk with me about your going to Holland.  She always wants to arrange everything as she thinks it should be, or not at all.  I hope that her visit to Holland to see you will not exclude the possibility of your coming to England for a week or two, which would give my wife and me the greatest possible pleasure.

Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones.