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I want you to know where I am on this earth's surface–I can't do much more than send
bulletins now-a-days. My mother3 was much
worse when I first came, but has fought her way back to a better condition. We wheel
her about the grounds4 for two or even
three hours every afternoon. But her speech is now entirely gone.
STEPHEN SMITH, M.D.
MEDICAL
DIRECTOR
CHARLES W. THOMPSON, M.D.
ASSOCIATE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
J.A.
COLLLIE, M.D.
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
ETHEL FANSON, M.D.
PATHOLOGIST
LAS ENCINAS
SANITARIUM
PASADENA,
CALIFORNIA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GEORGE DOCK, M.D.,
PRES.
W. JARVIS BARLOW, M.D.
F.C.E. MATTISON, M.D.
STEPHEN SMITH,
M.D.
F.H. MACPHERSON
My brother5’s devotion is the thing that makes
everything easy. He comes to us every night, and he would so much rather have her
like this than not at all.
I’ve just finished the page proofs of my new book6. It
will be out in August Title, “Shadows on the Rock”, and it’s been my rock of refuge
these last three bitter years. It’s been the only thing in my life that
STEPHEN SMITH, M.D.
MEDICAL
DIRECTOR
CHARLES W. THOMPSON, M.D.
ASSOCIATE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
J.A.
COLLLIE, M.D.
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
ETHEL FANSON, M.D.
PATHOLOGIST
LAS ENCINAS
SANITARIUM
PASADENA,
CALIFORNIA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GEORGE DOCK, M.D.,
PRES.
W. JARVIS BARLOW, M.D.
F.C.E. MATTISON, M.D.
STEPHEN SMITH,
M.D.
F.H. MACPHERSON has held together or stayed the same.
I expect you’re going abroad for the summer. I’ll probably go up into Canada7, and then come back here when the frigh frightfully hot weather is over. While mother
is like this I can’t unpack and live anywhere. But, in a way, I’ve learned to live
without living. One loses much, but one gains
something–at a high price.
This is a report, not a letter.
With love Willa