may I thank you for your kindness in seeing me KXXXXX and for the generosity of your offer to take me on as a patient. I have decided not to accept it, as Dr Salmon has perhaps told you. I had no such idea when I went to see you, as you know, and though I was interested in my glimpse of your method, and stimulated by my visit, I am very loyal to Dr Salmon and his method, WXXXX has helped me greatly and I believe the still unsolved problems will slowly clear up. So I want to stick to him-I think a patient of your own would be likely to have the same reaction under like circumstances.

Breezemere Farm

South Brooksville, Maine.

August 15th, '42.

Dear Mr. Komora:

Yours of the 9th has just reached me. I did try to get you by telephone that day, but failed at the first throw and did not have time to call again, or to arrange a real meeting. It was a driving kind of day. So the meeting in the fall is undoubtedly the best bet-and I'll surely let you know when I am settled in New York again, and when I have got my notes from storeage.

Dr. Sal-
mon

I think however that you perhaps exaggerate my power to help you with the "psychiatric consultant", for the type of problems I took to him myself were those that I later worked out considerably in definitely amb analytical work-of the Jungian type- They were not the sort that call for institutional care and I was actively working at my profession all the time. My only friend among Dr Salmon's patients was Mrs Frankfurter, and what she has certainly discussed with me was Dr Salmon's help with her ad aptation to life.

But Dr. Salmon did talk much about his views on the mental components of physical illness and gave me the sense that he felt his greatest service as a doctor was to bring that point of view into general medicine, and to restore psychiatry to an honorable place in medicine.

I remember he once said that almost invariably his mental cases were finer, more sensitive etc in natural endowment than the frequently callous relatives that sent them to institutions, -and he discussed certain cases in this light that I knew at a remove. That point of view, and feeling for the patient, certainly must have helped many a patient back into life with a sense of meaning, instead of defeat; and of course like all psychiatrists, much of his work had to be done with the relatives and families.

Best wishes in your new work, and hopes of seeing you la

Sincerely yours,