We hear of you through a Mrs Cheney of Brookfield. To be brief and to the point – my mother age 65 of highly nervous temperament is sick with what Dr Loomis of NY City terms an “organic disease of the brain”. She has now lost her mind and seems to be losing speech by degrees. We took alarm about 8 weeks ago from her uncertain gait and scrawly penmanship. Has not been able to write at all for about four or five weeks. Dr Loomis said the disease “will progress”. Its As Written: It's progress has been terribly rapid and continuous. The name given the trouble is long and unmanageable – in plain terms I believe it is called bulbous paralysis or something very like that in sound. Doctors here forbade her removal to Brookfield Mass as dangerous to life at the stage reached by the disease 10 days or so ago. She had her reason then. Can you put us in communication with any one in New York who can aid us according to your system? Do you entertain hopes of recovery in a case like this which the highest Physicians regard as hopeless? A word by telegraph would be thankfully received if encouraging in a practical way or by mail in any case. I am