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Dartington

[[strikethrough]] SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
124th Day 3rd Sunday after Easter 242 Days to come

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pious upbringings one can have - with a curate & his wife who kept her because her family were in India. She was not allowed to go to school or read books or do anything so that she'd keep pure - & the result is as I found out later from Mrs. E. that she is being treated psychoanalitically by Dr. Payne ([[strikethrough]] (K's mother) [[strikethrough]] - & she was most anxious to meet Kenneth as she worships his mother. [[strikethrough]] Mrs E [[/strikethrough]] She said that she wanted to paint me the next time I came to London - & K told me later that his ma told him that Sylvia F. S. has spoken of me after that weekend. I felt it too - something in us both interested us - though she is probably a very difficult person, & a trial on Mrs. E. who has been so kind in helping her.  If I ever feel I need analysis - I am certainly going to Dr. Payne in England for it - as I have so much faith in her ability & understanding. Mrs. E. spoke especially of what a marvelous person she is - & that while most psychoanalists develop certain clichés & rules about everyone,


Dartington
[[strikethrough]] MONDAY, MAY 4, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
125th Day    241 Days to come 
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she treats each patient with a fresh & creative [[strikethrough]] point of view [[/strikethrough]] understanding. I could write no end about Dartington - its aims to create a self-sufficient little world by presenting the best opportunities that exist in every branch of education, & the [[strikethrough]] international & [[/strikethrough]] fact that there are every class [[strikethrough]] of person there [[/strikethrough]] (& particularly in the school there are the children of professional artists, writers, etc, because only progressive experimental people like that would risk sending their children - Freud's grandson & Aldous Huxley's son etc) & all ages there mixing beautifully, though I imagine that on the whole it suits an artistic misfit far better than an academically minded [[strikethrough]] ly [[/strikethrough]] or leader type of child, who would thrive in an [[strikethrough]] public ordinary [[/strikethrough]] old fashioned school & probably learn more. Somehow John & I felt a lack of force behind Leonard Elmhirst. He speaks in highly technical terms as if he knows all about a thing, but we