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My darling,
Your letter was very welcome and a great consolation. I wonder how many, if any, psychoanalysts know that a wife or a husband is essential to any decent work. I do not think it appears in the literature except by implication. Melanie didn't say so, but I expect that she did not in fact think so unless it was latterly.
So it is the eve of our anniversary. I think it is quite extraordinary the course our lives have taken, as far as it very well could be from the conventional run …
J. says I ought to take out an ‘Errors and Omissions’ insurance. He says that otherwise anyone feeling hostile can claim damages and even if they failed to get costs the legal expenses of defence alone might be very great. Of course this has been one of my nightmares and I have no idea what one can do about it. Analyse it? That is the answer, but how this is to cope with a wealthy delinquent like Mrs X. I don't know. Even assuming one can get an insurance – a large assumption as I am not ‘a doctor’ – one wonders how much use this is and how much it is pure phantasy …