Dear Mr Tuckett,

I was interested in Dr Vanggaard's response to one of my reminiscences, because it shows how discordant can be two people's memories of the same event.

The point at issue between us at the time concerned the authority for spending the money of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Whilst the Central Executive would very likely have agreed to pay for Dr Bettelheim, in my view our consent should have been requested, even if in fact he was the only analyst contemplated by Dr Vanggaard; that was not my impression of what Dr Vanggaard told me at the time.

I am much relieved to learn that a threat to abandon the Congress was 'a ridiculous and impossible idea'. If Dr Vanggaard had said so then, I should have been spared a very mauvais quart d'heure.

Yours sincerely,