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7th March 1957.
Dear Melanie:
I think everyone enjoyed yesterday evening, including your own contribution.1
I am writing about one small detail. I would not like you to think that in asking about the use of the word internal I have forgotten all you taught me twenty years ago. I used the word as Dr. Segal used the word constantly, and I could not be doing my work without always looking for the internal situation as represented in the material of the patient.
May I take it for granted that you know why I asked this question? It is that one half of the Society uses the word internal in this way and the other half does not do so. This is a cause of considerable misunderstanding and it is my job in the Chair to try to give an opportunity for cross fertilization. I may very likely do the same thing again on another occasion or alternatively it may be