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British Psycho-Analytical Society
19 December 1925
London
Dear Professor,
I hasten to answer your second letter which came today and to express my sympathy with you for what you must be going through. Abraham has
been even nearer death than you appear to have been told, but the latest news does at last give one reasonable grounds for hope. It is evident that the surgeons made a bad mistake and very nearly killed him.1
In answer to your question, of course I am ready to go to Berlin at once for the purpose you mention or for any other purpose where I could be of any help. I very nearly went last Tuesday on getting the first telegram and was chiefly restrained by the thought that my appearance from a distance might seem ominous to Abraham. I only wish I could have some say on the medical questions involved, but there is already such a multiplicity of advice that I had to renounce this desire. I am in constant communication with Sachs by telegrams and letters and he will let me know if my presence in Berlin could be of any assistance. He has behaved splendidly this week. I was surprised to hear from you that Eitingon was still in Sicily. Probably he has left since then.
My Committee, as you call it, will I hope survive any blow. The need for it will always give it life, though the loss of Abraham could never be replaced. When he is better I am going to make another determined attempt (he refused me this Summer) to insist on his living under conditions that will completely restore him before he resumes work, and this time I hope he will listen.
I feel with you, dear Professor, with all my heart.
Yours always,
Ernest Jones.