26 August 193O  The Plat  Elsted

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»I was glad to see your handwriting.  Only yesterday I heard from Eitingon the excellent news of the Goethe Prize, at which I was greatly joyed.  Best congratulations, and may it give a stimulus to the lagging Swedes!

I was not so enthusiastic about MacCord's review of Healy as you are.  Of course I share your opinion about the gentleman, but it should be possible to put him in his place without betraying so much lack of personal self‑control.  I shall have to edit MacCord, in his own interest, but will of course bear in mind your instructions.

I hope your long stay in Berlin was well worth while.  Last month I acquired a dental 'prothese' and the minor discomforts and re‑adjustments connected with it helped me to realise more fully how much you must have been plagued in these last years.

You do not appear to have got a letter from me, early in July, in which I asked if you had already got a fascinating book by Axel Menthe [«MDUL»sic«MDNM»] ('«MDUL»San Michele«MDNM»').  I presume you have, but if not I should like to send you a copy.

With the exception of a few days in Wales my holidays have been spent in Sussex, where a wonderful rose‑garden and a very charming new baby have been the chief sources of interest to us.  I say 'have been', for alas I return to work at the end of this week.  The holidays were also broken by the Congress for Sex Research in London.  It was composed almost entirely of biologists, who had to listen to an hour's address from me on |×/ and Biology«FN1.××Jones (1930a).

» and to hear how they had overlooked the greatest advance in their subject since 1859.«FN1.××i. e. since Darwin's «MDUL»Origin of Species«MDNM».»  The Laforgues, who were there, stayed with us in Elsted afterwards.  I like them greatly.  My next work is on the | / of Chess,«FN1.××Jones (1931a).

» a game which has always occupied me.

With warmest greetings to yourself and your family  Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones