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29 November 1923
81 Harley Street, London
Dear Professor,
I was grieved to hear you were not quite through your troubles yet,1 but trust that by the time you get this letter you will be completely recovered. Perhaps the previous recovery had been too uncannily beautiful; this added a more human touch that gives one a greater feeling of reality and confidence that you are truly free of all the trouble.
I enclose the Preface to the Sammlung translation.2 The proofs of vl. I are long since corrected, and I have finished Dora and Hans of vol II—just starting the Rattenmensch.3
I am very sad about Ferenczi, for I really feel quite innocent of any wish to slight him and feel sure that his excessive reaction is displaced. To anyone who knows the audience for which the paper was written, and how familiar they are with his theory, his remarks really seem ridiculous.4 But I will do what I can to assuage his feelings.
With all my best wishes—you know how much we care for your well being.
yours always affectionately
Ernest Jones.
In his Rundbrief of 15 November 1923 Rank reported that Freud had to undergo a second operation on his mouth that week because of pain experienced in the location where a malignant tumor had recently been removed (Sigmund Freud Copyrights, Wivenhoe; and Rank Collection, Butler Library, Columbia University). See note 1 to letter 406.
Jones (1924b).