July 5th. 1905.
Dear Paton:-
A thousand thanks for your book, which came the other day, and with which I am greatly delighted. I think the arrangement is admirable, and you have managed to compress within a comparatively small space a most astonishing amount of good material. I have only carefully read the introduction on scope and methods and the nature of alienation. You have put the problem forcibly and clear. I am sure the book will be a great success.
And now take a message, please, to Mrs. Paton, who is, I know, the important member of the firm and able to boss and control you in every way. Ask her, please, not to allow you to get the European habit, but to take you back to establish a first class psychiatric clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
With kind regards,
Sincerely yours,
W Osler