February 1st, 1923  

Dear Friends:  

I am eagerly awaiting your comments on the Press plan which I expounded in my 
last letter. There is no further news to give. Rickman is amusing himself with 
sketching out most elaborate legal documents and statements.  

I lectured last week before the Croyden division of the British Medical Assoc-
iation and found there considerable interest.  

Miss Chadwick, Sachs’s pupil, has been made an Associate Member. 
Berlin. Van der Chijs has asked me to whom he should send the Dutch Mitgliedsbei-  
träge. What shall I answer him, my dear Karl? Please send me a postcard about it.  
You have charge of all the Continental Societies from the point of view of general  
direction, but do you not think it would be wise, for reasons of the Valuta, to  
have the Dutch and Swiss contributions paid to the London account?  

Glover brought me the etching you so kindly sent. Very many thanks. I cannot  
honestly say that I recognise the likeness as yet, but I am studying it and hope  
this will grow on me.  

Many thanks to you, my dear Hanns, for your manuscript, which I have read with  
interest. Miss Chadwick is translating it for the Journal.  

I received your letter from Florence, my dear Max, but by now you will have  
seen the correspondence in Berlin; I had sent you two letters to Sicily, but re-  
ceived no answer to them and was not sure of your later address. I hope that you  
have in every way benefitted from your enjoyable holiday.
 

Budapest. I completely fail to understand, my dear Sándor, your exhortation to me to 
continue the Press as an intimate part of the Verlag, when you had just come from 
Vienna and must have heard their opinion of its impossibility. Unfortunately it seems 
that a business relation is no longer possible, but I hope that the moral and scientific 
bond will be closer than ever; so long as I have any influence there can be no doubt 
of that.  

I am sorry to disagree with you in your high estimation of Eder. I have known him 
well for nearly twenty years and, though I esteem his fine character highly, he has 
given every evidence of having a mediocre brain. Much more do I subscribe to Professor’s 
laconic words on my telling him of Eder’s defection from Psa: „Um Eder ist es nicht 
schade. Er ist ein konfuser Kopf.“ Nor do I think, with you, that his mystical tend-
encies are superficial, for they have dominated his life in detail. This now the third 
time he has had a two months’ analysis (the former by Tausk and myself), and each time 
the temporary impression and enthusiasm was followed by a fall back into anagogic and 
ethical mysticism.  

Vienna. I enclose an interesting example of „nachträglichem Gehorsam“ from a Pole, Dr 
Bornsztajn in Warsaw. Is anything known of him? I advised him to attempt contact with 
Berlin or Vienna.  

Is it confirmed that Silberer is dead? If so, I suppose you will write a notice for 
the Z and J.  

The cost of printing in Germany will now (unfortunately for our German friends) be 
presumably more favourable for the Verlag. As our proverb says, „it’s an ill wind that 
blows no one good“. In my judgement of the political situation I fear that this may 
continue for a couple of years, for I see no defence against the French until America 
intervenes (of which there is not the slightest sign), and I would advise you to make 
your calculations accordingly.  

With cordial greetings to all,  
Ernest Jones.