Brief von Ernest Jones, 16. September 1926, London1

Dear Friends,

I propose that we include Ferenczi in our correspondence just as before and ask him to write a regular Rundbrief. If one of you will kindly send me his address in New York I will send him a copy of this letter.

The chief news here is of course the sad event of James Glover's death, of which I now have all the details. He had been quite wrongfully convicted of being drunk while driving a car a month ago, his real condition being certainly one of insulin intoxication; in the circumstances, however, you will all understand why this had a peculiarly deep emotional effect. He then went to Spain where he got an attack of acidosis. They found it impossible to regulate his sugar metabolism and he died in less than two days. Diabetes is notoriously susceptible to psychical factors; it had been worse now for some months. His loss will be terribly felt by our Society, in which he was a main pillar, and perhaps most of all by myself. I valued him very highly as one of the very few analysts in Europe with a truly scientific outlook, and relied on his help and judgment in many matters. He had just been appointed Co-Director with me of the new Clinic, which is to start its regular work on September 28th. I expect that his brother will be given this position as well as the other offices James had held with the exception of membership of the Council of the Society, which I think will be filled by Rickman.

We have appointed a staff for the new Clinic and it is to meet for the first time together on the 24th.

The International Congress of Psychology in Holland was not important to us. Binswanger read a very philosophical paper on »Verstehen und Erklären«.2 My own paper on the »Psychology of Religion«3 produced some startling effect, but was not followed by much open discussion. The only interesting feature of the discussion was an irrelevant statement by

Oesterreich4 of Tübingen to the effect that »Janet der Sc