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9th June 1969.
Dear Dr. Wilkinson,
Thank you so much for writing me.
It is interesting, what you say about intellectual honesty. I remember as I was putting this in I thought to myself “really it is only in the split-off intellect that one can be 100% honest; as soon as living processes come in, then there is self-deception and deception and compromise and ambivalence.”
As for T, it would be very interesting for me to have a talk with him, but I cannot imagine being able to give him valuable ideas or a new slant on this vexed problem.
Incidentally, there is my lecture to the Newcastle Conference of the Student Health Association, a proof of which was not sent me, and I hate to think of its going out under my name. I could let you have an offprint of a corrected version of this should you want it, but I know of course that this lecture, although it meant quite a lot to me myself, did not get to the heart of the matter. I don't suppose anyone can get to the heart of the matter like this, but at the same time one has to admit that there are problems of management which belong to the here and now, and that are separate from matters of eternal truth. It's fun to hear from you.
Yours,
D. W. Winnicott, F.R.C.P.