INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO‑ANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION

                              19 February 1935  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»I do not think I have written to you since I saw you last.  My letters to Anna seem to convey all the news and I have no doubt it is passed on to you.  There is at present rather a lull in the doings of the Association, but presumably the various problems will soon surge up again.

Federn and Weiss have notified me of the «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM» they intend to bring out with your approval.  I had thought you had agreed with me last summer that it was time these official organs were regulated by a responsible committee, and I got the Lucerne Congress to appoint a special committee for that purpose.  I hope that Weiss will consent to discussing his plans with the committee.  As to the idea itself it seems to me a laudable one, but difficult of attainment at the moment.  My own impression is that once a year is too frequent to provide useful summaries of our literature, but I would attach very great importance to such summaries of various aspects of Psycho‑Analysis, if only we could get them well done.  We have at present, however, no great surplus of energy at our disposal.

An excellent sign of the respect paid to Psycho‑Analysis in this country is that I was recently elected an Honorary Member of the British Psychological Society.  As they previously had an informal rule that no British subject could be so elected until he had reached the age of seventy, I am in doubt whether to regard this exception as a personal compliment or as an exaggeration of my advancing age!

I am glad to send you good personal news.  My family is in excellent health and my rheumatism greatly benefitted from a twelve days' visit to the Engadine.  We are all, except the baby, greatly looking forward to spending a week in Vienna at Easter.  I wonder if you will have already moved from Berggasse at that time.

With kindest greetings  Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones