ABSTRACT
The next communication from Mabel to Brill is either a complete note or part of a lost letter. It contains only the date, location, one word by Mabel, and a clipping from The New York Times previewing the publication of Myron Brinig's Anne Minton's Life. The book's cover announces: "When Anne Minton steps out on the window-ledge of a Los Angeles hotel and crowds gather below to watch the spectacle of her distraction, her own life rolls backward in the novelist's mind and the lives of others are quickly affected in the present." In Brill's next letter to Mabel, he forcefully defends not having time to read all the material she sends him, since she had by now mailed him over 600 pages of manuscripts, including Una and Robin, Una and Robin in Taos, Water of Life, On Human Relations, and "The Money Complex." Brill's insinuation that Mabel is not a "tragic exhibitionist" is somewhat puzzling; many would certainly label.
