ABSTRACT
Nearly two years pass before another existing letter exchange between Mabel and Brill. During this time she remained in Taos with Tony, continuing to entertain friends at the Big House, and Brill was immersed in his diverse life of teaching, writing, practicing psychoanalysis, and family. In 1942, Mabel consulted with several doctors in New Mexico about urinary pain, yielding no diagnosis; one doctor in Santa Fe eventually recommended. In lost letters, Mabel had evidently written to Brill at least twice about her painful urinary symptoms. When he next replies, he cannot help but wonder, with his characteristic psychoanalytic slant, whether her symptoms have a psychological component, and he suggests she might try to cure herself through insight or come to New York for better treatment. In his next communication with Mabel, Brill acknowledges that she had written him a number of now lost letters about healing from her surgery.
