ABSTRACT
Brill's next letter to Mabel, again replying to a lost one from her, refers to the manuscript of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers she had sent him on April 24, 1925 as payment for his treatment of Everett Marcy. Brill also mentions for the first time his daughter, Gioia, and her upcoming marriage at age nineteen to Philip Bernheim. Brill was likely reporting on news of John Evans because his relationship with Alice was a concern for Mabel, perhaps heightened by observations during her stay in Buffalo after her hysterectomy. In her next letter to Brill, Mabel announces the completion of Lorenzo in Taos, an autobiographical account of her relationship with Lawrence, told in the form of a book-length letter to Robinson Jeffers, the famous poet whom she wanted to lure to Taos. Writing in Lorenzo in Taos from the distance of the passing years, Mabel asserted: "Somehow Lawrence was right, and the analysts were not.
