Found: Diagnosis Notes and Recommended…

For Lura Beam & Louise Stevens Bryant
1. Recent death of mother, keeps house for old father.
No treatment; friends and amusement.
2. Shock of two deaths.
Try to read, not to stay alone, cultivate a new interest.
3. Full-time teaching; does cooking at home.
Early bed, no pelvic examination, neurologist.
4. Mother’s illness, long strain, cares for two children.
Wheeling, swimming, gymnasium, vacation.
5. At eighteen, well in country, ill at home.
Think out plan for self-control.
6. Clerical work.
Two weeks vacation at once; make bathing and fresh air habits.
7. Death of father, friction with stepmother.
One thing a day, write every morning, give up dieting.
8. Shock of death.
Try to sell the big house.
9. Worries, no exercise or air.
Seabathing, stop pickles and coffee.
10. Old father, sick mother, overwork.
No more time in museums at present, omit reading and conversation about the self; no more long letters, adapt Odyssey for children.
11. Sick mother, no help, cooks, sweeps.
Give up Sunday work, stop playing the organ.
12. Works seventeen hours a day.
Go fishing.
13. Supports mother.
Try to get interested in men.
14. Solitary occupation, autoerotism.
Make some friends, church, less food.
15. Daydreams.
Bicycle, seabathing, YWCA, gymnasium in winter.
16. “I was born tired.”
Give up dancing except Friday evenings.
17. Cooking school causes vomiting.
Have some company at home; outdoors, hobby.
18. Is going away from religion; interested in sister’s fiancé.
Study Christian Science, new friends.
19. Downhearted, cries.
Is to do something for other people.
20. Cries a good deal.
Bicycle.
21. Depressed seamstress.
Seabathing, mountains.
22. Domestic, feels like suicide.
Place in the country at outdoor work.
23. Pregnant, engaged six months.
Marry, date certificate back.
24. Very intellectual, does not want to get well.
Browning’s poetry.
25. Very self-centered.
Get a job.
26. Teacher, overwork.
Three months vacation in the woods.
27. Teacher, overwork.
Bicycle, give up so many details.
28. Cannot decide between two lovers.
Singing lessons.
29. Insomnia (domestic).
Country position.
30. Has never cared for anybody.
Take walks, go to dances.
31. At eighteen, disappointed in friends.
Give up chocolate cake, try tennis, basketball.
32. Fear and invalid habit beginning.
No diet, air, interest in flowers.
33. Worries about suffering in the world.
Christian Science.
34. Teacher, overwork.
Give up teaching in summer school.
35. At twenty has been to thirteen doctors.
Make own bed, get up early, outdoors, hobby.
36. Long introspective letter, had had elsewhere sixty treatments for menorrhagia.
“I answer curetting.”
37. Never love affair, no girl friends.
To go out a little.
38. At twenty-five, “I am just drifting.”
To make herself of use, become somebody, work at French or music, go to church, exercise.
Source: Poetry (October 2025)