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27 July 1921
Badgastein, V. Wassing
Dear Jones,
I greatly enjoyed the first of your letters which followed me to this place. I am glad you liked the Strachey's, you will see we can get the best people for ΨA if we only drop the professional condition soon enough, for it will show unavoidable in the long run.
As for Le Bon I know nothing of his later career; it is remarkable that a man who could write so clever a book should have gone down so deeply. The review you enclosed and which I return should not weigh so much, just consider his appreciation of our work!
Frink is a very nice boy. He means what he says and more. If he will prove steady depends on a complete change in his private affairs he is now planning, the success of which is not yet assured. It may interest you to learn that Jelliffe is in Europe, he saw Pfister who announced him to me. Pf.[ister] writes that he is on bad terms with Jung who reproaches him for being a “Freudian”. Now Frink is very sharp on Jelliffe, he seems to be the only man he hates. Jllf. [Jelliffe] is described by whom [him] as absolutely reckless, amoral and personally dangerous.
As for the arrangement of the Sammlung I lay not stress on any shape and am willing to leave the matter to you and Rank, who both seem so very much interested in it. Allow me only to bring up two or three remarks. First that you must overaccentuate your English habits and whims as the fact of my being a foreigner cannot be denied or concealed. Nor should it be done. I think an element of opposition and innovation will do some good to your chinese rigidity. Secondly I do not think the introductory papers and the technical ones will go together. The first are mostly superannuated while the technique is still up to date. The readers should not be induced to neglect the historical moment. My third point is I would greatly prefer to appear before English readers first as the author of the Krankengeschichten, if this can be done. Now Strachey's have nearly finished t