Stuk 181 - Letter from Donald Tovey to R. C. Trevelyan and Elizabeth Trevelyan

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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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