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TRER/7/181
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Letter from Donald Tovey to R. C. Trevelyan and Elizabeth Trevelyan
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- [17 Jan 1920?] (Creation)
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University of Edinburgh headed notepaper - There has been a great improvement [in Grettie's condition] since Sir Edward Schafer recommended they try Haydn Brown; she has had four hour-long, and is still very sceptical, crediting improvement to use of her spectacles, but Tovey is confident. 'Freud & Jung are the crudest of pioneers compared to this man's technique'. Brown has written 'several queer & apparently bumptious popular books' which he thinks give a false idea, but he recommends that Tovey read "Advanced Suggestion". Brown has prejudices including 'Germans & pacifists' but 'his technique is too good for that to interfere'. Suggests that he may be able to help Julian
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- Tovey, Sir Donald Francis (1875-1940), knight, music scholar and composer (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Cameron, Margaret Kerr (1878-1933?) first wife of Donald Tovey (Subject)
- Schafer, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey- (1850-1935), knight, physiologist (Subject)
- Brown, Haydn (1864-1936) physician (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Julian Otto (1910-1988), painter and printmaker (Subject)