(seq. 58)

March 21, 1955

Dear Doctor:

I deliberately neglected telling you in person
how grateful I am for your fine attitude about
Ruth. She, of course, told me. I'm not as
dumb as I look, - I'm dumber - and I know what you
must be up against in retaining her, but it
seems to me that if F of F is anything more than
a fine sounding organization, this would be the
very time that this temporary sinking into
quicksand should be by-passed. God knows what
would happen if it were otherwise. I know what
has happened to me because the courst didn't see
fit to take into consideration how well I had done
and to treat my backsliding as temporary.

I think far more has been accomplished by your
attitude constructively speaking than the so-called
"good lesson." I do hope that her psychosomatic
laryngitis is cleared up before it becomes fixed.

Again, deep thanks. This is the kind of thing that
eventually ends in true rehabilitation.

I wish I could have been
Your

B. M.

From Dorothy Cushing
re Ruth Mason
and being retained by Fr. of Fr.