Brief von Ernest Jones, 21. Januar 1921, London1

Dear Friends:

Bd. Re Hermann's communication: Marinetti2, the futurist poet, has just founded a new artform based on touch which he calls »tactilism«.

Bl. The idea of always putting the Wohnort after the author's name is an excellent one, which we have adopted already for the J.; it adds much to the interest of the reader in a foreign country. Is Vollrath the Corresponding Secretary in Berlin?

Best thanks for the clear report of the English Analysanden. I am happy to hear that it is such a good one, and, from what I had heard, am not surprised. We have no prejudice whatever against the three people in question, but as regards the Clinic it is essential before we have anything to do with it or the people there that it be changed and run on medical-professional lines, especially in regard to the lay analysts. I hope you will keep this point in the forefront of your interest. So far we have been at least as strict in all medical ethics as our medical colleagues, and we hope always to remain so.

Dr Herford has made a very unfavourable beginning. I expected that she would now approach me (for the first time) and say that she had progressed so and so far in Ps-A and would like to enter into relation with us. Instead of which she has chosen the backstairs method of writing to say she would like to call on my wife because she had met her sister in Berlin (which I suppose is unfortunately true). It is just this personal obtrusiveness that makes her so very unpopular. She might have guessed

that the question of professional relations with her, still doub