8 March 1923  81 Harley Street  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»I hasten to answer your letter about Lissa Kann which came today.  You should have no doubt that my only wish is to be of as much service to you as is possible.  But I am bound to answer your letter before I can write to Lissa Kann, because I do not find your instructions entirely clear.  Perhaps you were hovering between different plans when you wrote the letter.

I had naturally assumed that if you were to die before me I should transmit the money to your wife by whatever route she, probably after consultation with Martin, would decide.  Now I understand from you that you have given Martin the right of disposal at Lissa Kann, i.e. on a similar footing to yourself.  So far all is clear.  You then ask me to write to Lissa Kann informing them that I resign from the account and that "Dr. Martin Freud will step into your (i.e. my) place".  In that case I understand I should have no further connection whatever with the account.  This also would be perfectly clear, did you not go on in the next paragraph to ask whether I had any objection to lending my name to an account over which I had no control.  Of course I have no such objection, but my difficulty is that the remark seems to imply that I would still have some connection with the account.  I am therefore not clear what exactly I should inform Lissa Kann, i.e. whether there are to be three names in the account or two (Martin's and yours).  If I may trouble you to clear up this point and send me more explicit instructions I will carry them out at once.

Please decide on any plan that seems best to you.  You need only consider me in so far as I am at your service for any plan you may choose.

Yours affectionately,  Ernest Jones

P.S.  I hope you approve of my resuming the custom of sending you personal letters with each Rundbrief.