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23rd November 1967.
Dear Mrs. Spence,
I am glad you wrote me because this gives us a chance to discuss together the very important matter of the way you bring up your baby. It may surprise you when I say that I cannot recognise what you seem to have found in my book.1 Can you write again and let me know where you feel that I have made a statement like the one you refer to?2 I would have thought that in all that I have written I have been trying to say the opposite.
In any case I feel that it is not possible to bring up a baby according to what someone says in a book. The baby has a relationship with the mother and father that develops according to what all three are like, and although it is possible to talk about what happens and to say how one thing may be better than another, the