ABSTRACT
Mabel's struggles between conformity and passion were notably obvious in two affairs during her marriage to Tony Luhan. In her first existing letter to Brill, she explains her payment of a new friend's psychotherapy bill in exchange for the handwritten manuscript of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, a friend later revealed as one of her current romantic interests. Mabel had been on the East Coast in April 1925 and then traveled back to New Mexico by train, as indicated in Brill's next letter. He responds positively to her lost invitation for him and his family to visit. Brill's next two letters mention a woman named Alice, perhaps Mabel's daughter-in-law, Alice Henderson, whom she likely had referred to Brill in her characteristic urging of others towards treatment. Mabel returned to New York in January 1926, as indicated by an entry from Van Vechten's daybooks placing her and Tony there on January 28.
