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23rd September 1954.
My dear Money-Kyrle:
I found myself getting annoyed talking to you last night and I do not want to leave it like that as I have a great respect for you and not a little affection.
I think what irritated me was that I faintly detected in your attitude this matter of the party line, a matter to which I am allergic. Your own opinion is what I asked for. The father of the child being in analysis with you, it seemed good to ask whether you want to be involved or not in the choice of analyst. If you do not want to be involved, then I will do as I have been used to doing over a period of more than twenty years, which is to use my own judgment. My own judgment is based not on what people write in papers but on the experience of a lot of cases referred and treated. When people like Marion Milner, or myself for that matter, write