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17th April 1957.
Dear Dr. Martin James,
I am glad to hear from anyone staying in Wadebridge. Clare and I will be going to Plymouth on Saturday and I may follow your example and start bathing. Good wishes to you both.
In regard to your letter, I am very glad that you find my paper useful. It does not matter at all if you agree or do not agree with all the details, and I shall hope to learn something from seeing your lectures if you let me have them sometime or other.
The point you make is an interesting one but it seems to me that we are trying to say the same thing. You said disillusionment is a rotten outcome, etc.—happiness is when your illusions come true, etc. I do think, however, that it does fall to the lot of the mother to introduce to the child the facts of external reality. It is for the child to build up a cultural life out of the retention of illusion.