17 October 192O  111 Harley Street  London W1

Dear Professor,

*IP4,0+We were so glad to get your friendly letter about the new arrival, with the kind inquiries.  Both the young ladies are blooming and are well pleased with each other.  Kitty looks charming as a young mother.  The baby weighed 6 1/6 English pounds at birth (6 is I think the average for a female child), the same after a week, but in the last three days has gained another 5/16 of a pound.  Her name will probably be Gwenyth; it had to be Welsh to go with Jones.

Perhaps I forgot to tell you that Rivers wrote to me in September expressing the hope that you would visit Cambridge, but it was of course no appointment.

I am using Lissa & Kann for some sums of my own also, as I have a Dutch patient at present, so must be careful of the exact accounts.

Strachey's English should be good, so perhaps his indistinct utterance is part of his general inhibitions and will improve.  He offered to help us with translations.  Will you or Rank suggest that he does Federn's *MDUL+Vaterlose Gesellschaft*MDNM+,*FN1.AAPaul Federn, *MDUL+Zur Psychologie der Revolution: die vaterlose Gesellschaft*MDNM+ (Vienna: Anzengruber, 1919).

+ which is already partly translated, I believe.  I was exceedingly interested to hear that Mr. Young had applied to you.  I urged him to, but feared that his complex on the subject of foreigners might be too strong.  He was by far the ablest and most interesting man I have ever analysed.  He has had a most brilliant career, now interrupted by his neurosis, and is a highly intelligent and cultivated man.  Though I could see into the roots of his neurosis (impotence of urethral origin, with an inverted Oedipus‑complex), I was never able to break down his resistances, to my keen regret, and I shall rejoice if you will be able to treat him.  His speech is clear enough, and he is such a typical Englishman that you would find much interest in observing the English characteristics.

You will have heard from Rank of our success in raising money for the Press, but I will write about that on Tuesday.

With most cordial thanks for your congratulations  Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones