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1 July 1914
69 Portland Court, London
Dear Professor Freud,
Two presents have arrived, for which I thank you: the “historic” reprint, where the alterations interested me and the Goethe quotation amused me;1 and the proofs of the Narzissmus article. I will not say anything of this at present, for it is one of your “advanced” articles (like Ch. VII of the Traumdeutung) that requires more than one reading. We shall have a good Jahrbuch this time that will contrast with the last.
Ferenczi proposes to spend a month in London this summer, and I hope he will carry out the plan.
On Friday I go to Durham, to join in a symposium on “The Rôle of Repression in Forgetting” held by a joint meeting of the British Psychological Society, the Aristotelian Society, and the Mind Association. I have already received the four papers to be read, and will send them to you later. Three of them are very good, one being of a remarkably high order, though critical. You will, I think, be surprised at their quality.2
Our latest visitor here was Frink, the President of the New York ψα Society.3 He intends coming over next May to be analyzed by you, Abraham, or myself! He seems an honest fellow, but very limited. He gave no special news of America, and seemed fairly satisfied with the N.Y. group.
I heard lately from Abraham, and am eager to hear the result of his bomb, which, however, your reprint may render unnecessary; I suggested he should wait three or four weeks if possible, as Jung may again play into our hands.4
Three more people have gone to Jung from here, two of them for three weeks only! Eder's wife, Dr. Nicholl5—a rather promising young fellow, but influenced by Dr. Constance Long—and Miss Long's medical colleague, a woman. Jung is staying at Miss Long's for a week this month, and she wanted our society to invite him to address us—which of course I vetoed. [He]6 Bryan is a great help to me, as I cannot rely on Eder. Bryan is our Vice-President, and will become President in the case of my be