ABSTRACT
In her next letter to Brill, Mabel encloses payment towards her outstanding balance for treatment with him in New York the previous winter and spring, money presumably earned from the sale of a section of On Human Relations to Cosmopolitan. The Horse Fly announced: "Dancing Doctor's Slander Suit Ends". Nonetheless, in preparation for the trial, Mabel had accumulated significant legal fees. Mabel was admitting to Brill that she was depressed once more in the absence of others to stimulate her energy, and she mentioned two dreams. In Mabel's next letter to Brill, she announces, perhaps as a result of her quickly taking his advice to heart, the completion of her novel, Water of Life. Mabel's barely disguised autobiographical novel, Water of Life, is a story of the relationship between a powerful and unfulfilled woman named Gaza and an artistic, detached homosexual writer named Gendron. In a passage from On Human Relations about the artist, Mabel describes the experience of "blockings".
