INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO‑ANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION

                              23 February 1937  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»My letters to you nowadays are much scarcer, but whenever I write to Anna I always think that I am writing to you as well.  Your generous gift to the Eder Memorial Fund was highly appreciated.  Between the two funds (the Zionist and the Analytical) we shall probably get about £5OO ‑‑ a sum with which one can really do something.  Professor Weil, the librarian in Jerusalem, has asked me to undertake the choice and buying of suitable books, and I shall of course enlist the services of the Verlag for those in German.«FN1.××A sum of over £600 was collected in the end towards the establishment of a Memorial Library at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, see «MDUL»Journal«MDNM», 18(1937):487.

»  Some people, e.g. the Hungarians, are not allowed to send money but intend sending books, so we must be careful not to duplicate them.

Things in the analytical world seem to be pursuing a more even tenor than usual at present, so there is nothing startling to report.  It is undeniable that there has been a heavy shift of accent to America from Europe, a fact which none of us can welcome.  Our Society here is becoming distinctly «MDUL»verdeutscht«MDNM» [more and more German], there being some seventeen members who have reached us from abroad in the last few years.  There is urgent need for an analyst in South Africa (preferably a Training analyst), but so far I have not been able to find one.  Bernfeld is in London for two or three months pending his overcoming the formalities about going to America, where he intends to settle in San Francisco.  Dr. Cohn of Berlin, who is in London, has recently spent three or four months in Los Angeles with Simmel intending to settle there, but he has returned here and gives a not very encouraging account of the local situation.  He thinks that both Simmel and Frau Deri have been subjected to the usual American flattening influence.«FN1.××Siegfried Bernfeld (1892‑1953), psychoanalyst active in Berlin from 1926 until 1932, after short stay in Vienna left for the South of France, then with third wife Suzanne emigrated to America in 1937, the two contributed to biographical scholarship on Freud's early intellectual and scientific development; Franz Cohn, former member of German Psychoanalytic Society in Berlin, joined British Psycho‑Analytical Society in 1933; Frances Deri, of Los Angeles, Ca., member of Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

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My personal news is good.  The children thrive and we are all in good health.  Nesta May, who has a passionate Viennese temperament, has a pathological jealousy of her little brother and is being analysed by Dr. Winnicott«FN1.××Donald W. Winnicott (1896‑1971), important British paediatrician, child psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst.» ‑‑ our only man child analyst.  Mervyn is precociously sitting for his Matriculation examination in the summer, having by then reached the ripe age of fifteen.  I intend to send him abroad for a year for languages between the school and the university, i.e. when he is seventeen.  My wife and I are spending three weeks' holiday at Easter at Florence and Rome, where she has never been.  It will bring back to me the memory of your Moses among many other things.  How the world has changed since those peaceful days, yet I cannot complain personally since my life is much happier now than it was then.  Ernst and Lux«FN1.××Ernst Freud's wife Lucie.

» are coming to the country with us next week.  He seems to be getting on most satisfactorily.

I close this tittle‑tattle of local news with my kindest regards to you and the expression of my joy that you made such a good recovery from the unpleasant operation in December.«FN1.××See Jones (1957a, p. 210; 1957b, p. 224), and Schur (1972, pp. 485‑486).

»  You will not have long to wait now for your beloved Grinzing in the spring.

Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones