Letter from Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, February 18, 1921

18 February 1921
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Dear Jones,

In contradiction to your last statement, you would clear out your account at Lissa & Kann after some weeks, I got the intimation that you had already transferred F1. 1.262.67 to Lippmann, leaving me in full use of your name at the former bank, for what I am really thankful to you. I grew eager to know how I stould [stood] with L[issa] & K[ann] and began to figure1 out my own account. As I got puzzled about it, I had to turn to yours and see what I detected. It may be a case for psychoanalysis for myself or for you.

So I concluded, you had taken away 1000 F1 more than belonged to your account and made up for it by taking 0.10 less. Have you? In making this enumeration I myself had overlooked the post of F1 75 (royalties from your oil shares). Have you forgotten this too? And neglected to take your part of the interests up to the end of 1920? Now how is this to be explained? Is the correspondence of the numbers 1.262.67
and 262.77
pure chance or is the analysis correct? Did you moved by conflicting tendencies take away a big 1 and make up for it by a small 1 adding thereto all the interests? Or is the fault with Lissa & Kann who perhaps did not send me all the reports? They made some bad mistakes in the last weeks. In any case I wrote them asking to let me know, what the remainder of