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20th January 1969.
Dear Anna Freud:
I am grateful to you for your letter which you wrote concerning my illness.1 Now I am convalescent at home all seems well, but I cannot yet plan for my future professionally.
While I am writing I want to let you know how sorry I am that your brother Ernst has been ill again.
If you were to ask me what about my paper, The Use of an Object, I would say that the answer is complex. I read the paper and got considerable personal benefit from the reaction of the three discussants, so that I am now in process of rewriting it in a quite different language. The unfortunate thing was that the three said discussants occupied the whole of the time so that there could be no response from the very large audience which collected for some reason unspecified. There was an internal TV arranged so that the overflow in the library could watch me, which I thought rather amusing. Actually I was already ill but I think this was not noticed.
With good wishes,
Yours very sincerely,
D. W. Winnicott, F.R.C.P.