ABSTRACT
In her next letter to Brill, Mabel encloses the completed 100-page typescript of On Human Relations in her continued pursuit of its publication. She also mentions Myron Brinig's 1938 novel, May Flavin, which Time magazine pronounced as "written in a style as choked as the author's emotions", and announces that her writing project features her in dramatic conflict with Brinig. A few days later, she writes again, asking Brill to send her an autographed photograph of himself. A lost letter from Mabel likely informed Brill of a dramatic incident between Robinson and Una Jeffers that occurred after his recent visit. Brill's comments in his next letter suggest that Mabel attributed the cause of this event to his casual discussions about sex while he was in Taos. On July 16, 1938, a weekly newspaper, The Horse Fly, reported that Una was admitted to the hospital for "a gun-shot wound in her left side, self-inflicted while cleaning a pistol last Saturday night".
