BRITISH PSYCHO‑ANALYTICAL SOCIETY

                                  17 July 1925  London W1

Dear Professor,

The good news concerning your health continues to reach me from various sources.  I am sure, however, that you must have greatly welcomed the change from work and are thoroughly enjoying your rest on the Semmering.  We are eagerly looking forward to seeing you at Homburg.

Your son, Martin, lunched here a few days ago to our great pleasure.  He speaks English with a very pleasing accent and has a pretty good knowledge of it.

Eitingon tells me the good news that Rank intends to read a paper at the Congress.  It will surely be listened to with special attention by everybody. «FN1.××Rank (1925).

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Melanie Klein has just given a course of six lectures in English before our Society on 'Frühanalyse'. «FN1.××The lecture series had already been announced in Jones's Rundbrief of 19 June 1925 (Sigmund Freud Copyrights Ltd, Wivenhoe).  A most interesting account of the events that led up to Klein's lectures that summer is to be found in the letters betwen James and Alix Strachey, see Meisel and Kendrick (1985, pp. 247‑291).»  She made an extraordinarily deep impression on all of us and won the highest praise both by her personality and her work.  I myself have from the beginning supported her views about early analysis and although I have no direct experience of play analysis I am inclined to account her development of it as exceedingly valuable.  It has been arranged that Roheim should come here in September to give a course of lectures.

If you have had time to read it I should be interested to know your opinion of the theory of Mother‑right I expressed in a paper I sent you some time ago, which I hope arrived safely. «FN1.××Jones (1925a).

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My wife and children left this morning for the sea‑side in Wales.  I finish work on July 25th and join them there for six days.  After that we spend a week at our cottage in Sussex and leave the children there while my wife and I join the two Glovers and their wives in a party that intends to reach Homburg by automobile.  Our itinerary, if there are no breakdowns, will be from Havre through Rouen, Orleans, Tours, Limoges, Grenoble, Geneva, Strassburg and Heidelberg.  Afterwards we return through Belgium to Ostend.  I will get letters which reach London up to August 3rd.  After that they will wait until they can be sent to me at Geneva which I reach on August 26th.

With all kind wishes,  Yours always affectionately,  Ernest Jones