ABSTRACT
Mabel wrote poems for D. H. Lawrence and sent them to him in January 1924, including the highly autobiographical "The Ballad of a Bad Girl." In 1924, the Lawrences returned to Taos and, despite the softening of hostilities from their sustained correspondence, the familiar tensions returned once they were back, fueled by jealousies and extreme emotions. Brill convinced Mabel of the urgency of continued analysis and encouraged her to resume treatment with him in New York. While Brill is on holiday in London, he writes his next letter to Mabel, offering his thoughts on a book she had sent him: Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Caste and Outcast, an autobiographical account of growing up in India as a Brahmin and later living in the United States as an immigrant. It is intriguing to consider Mabel's motives in suggesting this book to Brill. He admitted "as wished it has broadened me," thereby implying she explicitly appealed for openness to its ideas.
