Letter from Ernest Jones to Sigmund Freud, January 27, 1920

27 January 1920
111 Harley Street, London

Dear Professor,

So Von Freund has gone, and is relieved of his sufferings. He now belongs to the past, like many noble and beautiful things.

Yes, I should be very grateful of the photograph. Many thanks. What does Brill write to you? I wish I could have a word from him; I wait day by day for news of American affairs, for his article—the lack of which now holds up the Journal—and for the money,1 which we urgently need to buy American books.

I am glad to hear from Daly that he leaves tomorrow for Vienna. You will have got my letter about him already.

I am anxious to publish your Vorlesungen (together with the Fünf Vorlesungen) as the first volume of our standard edition,2 and can find reliable translators. Have I your permission to start on this? Brill seems definitely to agree.

Southard, Prof. of Psychiatry in Harvard, has written a long scurrilous article against you in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology,3 which has enraged me. He attacks your Krieg und Tod4 as a deliberate piece of pro-German