Letter from Ernest Jones to Sigmund Freud, February 27, 1925

British Psycho-Analytical Society

27 February 1925
London

Dear Professor,

Many thanks for your letter. It is splendid news to hear that you are seriously thinking of coming to the Congress. Of course, no one could expect you to listen to the papers. I think that you and I held a record at both the Hague and Berlin Congresses as being the only ones to listen to every paper, but neither of us is masochistic enough to wish to repeat the experience!

You will have received the Swiss correspondence I forwarded. Of course, I entirely approve of Abraham's actions in the matter and think he is to be highly commended for his combination of tact and firmness.1

You are right in correcting me in the matter of Miss Newton. The Rule I was thinking of was formulated by yourself at the Hague to the following effect; “Election to membership of a foreign group shall be subject to the consent of the Central Executive”.2 It is doubtful whether my conception of it necessarily follows, though perhaps it does. It would appear doubtful whether Miss Newton's election in Vienna is legal. At all events, some fuller exposition of such questions should be considered at the next Congress.

I note your remark about the Zeitschrift title-page. It is difficult to keep up-to-date with the New York changes which are so frequent. I did not know that Stern was President, for the last I heard was from Brill that he was debating whether he would accept the Presidency.3

With cordial greetings,

Yours always,

[Ernest Jones]