Brief von Ernest Jones, 16. April 1926, London1

Dear Friends,

I have been much taken up with the Journal and Zeitschrift work and have little else to report. I am also engaged in a controversy on Symbolism with an Anthropologist and my contribution will appear in the April number of »Psyche«.

Easter interposed a delay in regard to the Clinic and there have also been a number of legal complications which have just been settled. The contract is now signed and we shall soon be able to start on the structural alterations that are necessary in the house.

I shall get to the Regina2 on the evening of the 5th or the morning of the 6th May and shall stay about four days. It is an occasion to which we all look forward with gladness.

There has been a very anxious time in the family this week. It had been arranged for my little daughter to have an appendicectomy on Wednesday but she developed a couple of days before another acute attack. The operation was performed this morning and two abscesses were discovered in the appendix on the very point of bursting. My little boy is to have his tonsils removed tomorrow, so the house is rather like a hospital at present. With cordial greetings to all,

Ernest Jones.

Enclosure.

Miss Jane Harrison3, perhaps our leading classical scholar, archaeologist and student of Oriental Religions, says in her Memoirs that the three books which have made the deepest impression on her have been: Aristotle's