Letter to Langdon Cheeves Stewardson

              C/o Mrs. E.A. Spooner,
Warren Ave., Plymouth, Mass.

August 10, 1912.

Dr. Langdon C. Stewardson,
C/o Brown, Shipley & Co.,
123 Pall Mall, London, England.

My dear Mr. Stewardson:-

I was very greatly pleased to receive your nice long letter of July 3, in which you tell us so many of the details of your trip. I think it very likely that Mrs. Stewardson may not have been quite so ill as Mrs. Taylor. If she was, however, then I feel sure that your final experience will be very much the same as ours, namely, that what Mrs. Stewardson will ultimately require will be an absolute and complete mental and physical rest.

After more than a month of the most rigid regime, Mrs. Taylor finds herself far better than she has been for nearly a year past. She is now really happy, and contented, most of the time, and this in spite of the fact that she is still under an exceedingly severe regime; that is, she sees no one but myself, and the doctor; only rides out ten minutes a day, and takes two walks of five minutes each. And in addition to this, throughout a great part of the day she actually lies in bed. When she is up, her chief amusement and occupation during the past month has been looking at the pictures in the illustrated magazines. We found that she could do this with the smallest mental effort, and with comparatively little nervous strain, so we have bought