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11th June 1954.
Dear Fordham:
It was extremely kind of you to write me at length.1 I always admire people like yourself who really seem to read other people's papers; so very often I postpone reading something which is at all near my own subject because of the slight warp that it gives to the development of original ideas. When I have got something published, however, I then like to read around it. This is a rather weak policy but I must admit to it.
There is only one comment, which is about your feeling that I have said something to upset religious people in the paper in the B.J.M.P.2 If you look at this again I do not believe that you will be able to substantiate your suggestion. One must be able to look at religious beliefs and their place in psychology without being considered to be antagonistic to anyone's personal religion. I have found others who thought that I was anti-religious in some of my writings but it has always turned out that what they were annoyed about was that I was not myself religious in their own particular way.
Let me know if you really fundamentally think that I am wrong.
Yours,
D. W. Winnicott.