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Jones, E. (1909). Letter from Ernest Jones to Sigmund Freud, December 18, 1909. The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud..

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Jones, E. (1909). Letter from Ernest Jones to Sigmund Freud, December 18, 1909. The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939, 34-38

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Ernest Jones

18 December 1909
407 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

I have delayed answering your letters for a singular reason arising from my defective education. I can read German quite well, and need never trouble you to write in English, but I cannot read the old German handwriting characters. After making several vain attempts I thought of a German friend in Montreal, who got them typewritten for me, and after getting them back from him yesterday I hasten to reply.

Your personal remarks to me were quite justified, and I thank you for being so open with me. I quite recognise the faulty attitude I had taken up and further recognise that a little suspicion of me on your part will be hard to avoid until I prove that I have adopted a more satisfactory one. However I cannot help that, but I will do my best in time to earn your confidence. Deeds, not words, speak best. I don't think I need bother you with a long account of my personal complexes; last month I sent a pretty full account

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