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1 April 1922
111 Harley Street, London
Dear Professor,
Your very welcome letter came safely. As usual, you hit the nail on the head in the matter of the change in name. Such questions are never easy when there is no strong outstanding motive either way, either for or against. Logically I still think the wiser thing to do would be to change, but the decision is so evenly balanced that I haven't enough motive impulse to take the trouble involved in such a change. So I must continue to assimilate the pinpricks involved in being called Jones or E. Jones.
I have not said anything of late about the money from my Father, for it is only this month that the law's extraordinary delays have permitted the definite division of it among the different relatives. Unfortunately the result is far below what I had expected. Owing to the almost complete standstill of trade in England the value of the various stocks and shares is on the average about one fifth of what it was two years ago. It would be madness to turn them into cash by selling at their present value and I have succeeded in carrying through a division of them without doing so. What their value may be in a few years no one can predict. In the meantime, in case of accident, I have inserted into my will a suitable provision for the Verlag, alias Press, on the basis I had already promised.
A day or two ago I received a handsome offer from Mrs. Riviere to take over the revision of translations for the Journal. There is no one who could do it as well, and there is no work that I would more gladly be relieved of, for it is physically impossible to do it adequately alone. The delicate problem arises, however, about Rickman, whom I should like to see as assistant editor. He is far easier to work with and will also become a man of standing. But I have also to realise that this particular work he cannot do well. Owing, doubtless, to some remaining infantilism, he makes extraordinary mistakes in spelling and even in grammar, not the mi