This volume of the letters between Freud and Ernest Jones has been eagerly awaited, although it turns out to be daunting in length. I doubt that it will attract many general readers, but it should be of keen interest to specialists. Even then I wonder if more than a handful will read every word of it from beginning to end. The same publisher is now scheduled to bring out a multivolume edition of the correspondence between Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, the first part of which has already appeared in France (Haynal, 1992); and in the hope that my remarks here might help improve the quality and usefulness of the Freud-Ferenczi letters in English, I want to start off now by letting out a howl about the miserable state of