Letter from Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, July 4, 1920

4 July 1920
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Dear Jones,

I too had missed your letters these last weeks and I am glad there was no other cause to your silence.

I will continue work until 30th July exhausting the English patients you sent me. I am rather in good condition but will need rest and recovery afterwards.

America seems to pass through a fit of madness just now. The same as you can get no answer from Brill, so I am expecting vainly news from my nephew Bernays about the book, I get neither a copy nor a letter nor money. Yet the book has come out long since. I have seen it advertised in the “Nation” and I got a letter from Allen & Unwin applying for the English edition, joined here. I answered that our Int. ψα Press had the nearest right to it and they should address you. Now if you will undertake the book in spite of the American edition, tell them so; if not you are entitled to sell it to them. To be sure the American translation had to be revised carefully and the preface by Stanley Hall substituted by another of yours. Hall may have abused the opportunity offered to him to break a lance for his latest favourite Adler in the wrong place.

I am glad to hear your good wife is well and so I hope are you.

Yours affectionately as ever

Freud