10/08/10 Father's affidavit:
Edgar Cayce Jr. [Letterhead]
Psychic Diagnostician
Hopkinsville, Ky.
Cincinnati, Ohio
State of Ohio
Hamilton County S.S.
Personally appeared before, Gerrit J. Raidt, a notary public
in and for said county, C. H. Dietrich, and after being duly
sworn, deposes and says that:-
Aime L. Dietrich, born January, 7th, 1897, at Hopkinsville,
Ky., was perfectly strong and healthy until Feb. 1899, when
she had an attack of La Grippe, followed by two violent
convulsions, each of twenty minutes duration. Dr. T.
G. Yates, now of Pensacola, Florida, was the attending
physician. Convulsions returned, at irregular intervals,
with increasing severity. She would fall just like she
was shot, her body would become perfectly rigid, the
spells lasting from one to two minutes.
This went on for two years, or until she was four years old.
At this time, she was taken to Dr. Linthicum in Evansville,
Indiana, and Dr. Walker, also of Evansville, was consultant
physician. They said a very peculiar type of nervousness was
all that ailed her and proceeded to treat her accordingly,
but after several months treatment, with no results, the
treatment was stopped.
In a few months, Dr. Oldham [D.O.] of Hopkinsville, Ky. was
consulted and he treated her three months, without results.
Later he took her for four months more treatment, making
seven months in all, but without results. She was now
six years old and getting worse, had as many as twenty
convulsions in one day, her mind was a blank, all
reasoning power was entirely gone.
March 1st, 1902, she was taken to Dr. Hoppe of Cincinnati,
O., who made a most thorough examination. He pronounced
her a perfect specimen physically, except for the brain
affection, concerning which he state that only nine cases
of this peculiar type were reported in Medical Records, and
every one of these had proved fatal. He told us that nothing
could be done, except to give her good care, as her case was
hopeless and she would die soon in one of these attacks.
At this period our attention was called to Mr. Edgar Cayce,
who was asked to diagnose the case. By auto-suggestion, he
went into a sleep or trance and diagnosed her case as one of
congestion at base of the brain, stating also minor details.
He outlined to Dr. A. C. Layne [Al C. Layne, D.O.], now of
Griffin, Ga., how to proceed to cure her. Dr. Layne treated
her accordingly, every day for three weeks, using Mr.
Cayce occasionally to follow up the treatment, as results
developed. Her mind began to clear up about the eighth day
and within three months she was in perfect health, and is so
to this day. This case can be verified by many of the best
citizens of Hopkinsville, Ky. And further deponent, saith
not.
Signed- C. H. Dietrich.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on this eighth day of
October, A.D. 1910
Gerrit J. Raidt, Notary Public, Hamilton Co., O.
10/09/10 See N.Y. Times article,
294-1, Par. R1.
10/17/10 Mrs. Dietrich's letter:
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
(Incorporated in New York)
300 Pike Street Cincinnati, [crossed out]
Winchester Ky.
Dear Madam:-
Your note to Mr. Dietrich just received, and he requested me
to reply.
I would say to you, that every word in the clipping you
enclosed is true, except that our little girl was SIX instead
of EIGHT years of age when the cure was effected. Mr.
Thalheimer knows absolutely nothing about it, except, that he
knows my husband - they are business friends in the American
Book Co. office in Cin.
Any communication addressed to Dr. W. H. Ketchum,
Hopkinsville, Ky, will tell you all you care to know, as
Mr. Cayce is with him at this time. Mr. Cayce is NO fake.
Hoping you will get relief - I am sincerely yours
[signed] Mrs. C. H. Dietrich
See Source File Key #2473 for an information pamphlet for
EDGAR CAYCE, PSYCHIC DIAGNOSTICIAN (Anniston, Alabama), which
includes a reprint of Mrs. Dietrich's letter (in previous
Report, above), re 2473-1.
2/09/11 See the Chicago Examiner, Sunday edition, re EC's
work.
1/06/12 Mayor Meacham's letter:
CITY OF HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY 1707
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
CHAS. M. MEACHAM, Mayor
Hopkinsville, Ky.
To Whom it May Concern:
I have known Edgar Cayce Jr. since his boyhood. He
is considered an honest, upright young man, quiet and
unassuming. He possesses a power that is out of the
ordinary, being what is known as a Psychic Diagnostician.
He is not a Clairvoyant, a palmist, hypnotist or a fortune
teller in any sense of the word. I have known of his work
several years from current talk and newspaper reports, but
more especially through some of my personal friends and
acquaintances who have had Mr. Cayce to diagnose and
prescribe for them or some member of their families, proving
in each case to be highly satisfactory and effecting a cure.
I witnessed some of his work a short while ago and while
it was an out of town case and made at long distance, I am
told the patient was highly pleased and pronounced his work
correct, as far as he could tell. He uses even the most
difficult technical terms and seems to be very accurate. I
do not understand Mr. Cayce's work or how it is accomplished,
but as far as I can hear, where the treatment is followed
that he prescribes, the patient gets the desired results.
He is a wonder to all who have seen his work.
[signed] Chas. M. Meacham Mayor
8/13/12 F. C. Askenstedt's letter to EC:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH
F. C. ASKENSTEDT, M.D.
OF EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE.
Louisville, Ky.
Dear Mr. Cayce:
Your letter of July 28th came duly to to hand, and I was glad
to hear from you.
I have written to Dr. Ketchum for the verbal reports obtained
during your seances, describing your patients conditions,
and the clinical reports furnished these patients by various
hospitals, which he has once shown me, but so far I have not
had any reply from him. If you have any of these in your
possession and you expect to go to New York in November,
please send them to Dr. James Krauss, 419 Boylston St.,
Boston, Mass, who will return them to you later. They are
the most convincing argument in your favor that I know
of, and will greatly aid in interesting some specialist
to investigate your case.
Miss Jennie Glass, of Hopkinsville, is here visiting us, and
she has every confidence in your diagnostic ability.
However glad we should be to have your case presented at
the meeting, I see no way of defraying the expenses for your
trip. I was under the impression that you were consulted
by a large number of well-to-do people from others states,
through the reports stated at our meeting in Boston, and that
you were given proper compensation for your time and efforts.
It is not likely that I shall attend the meeting this year,
as I have already been East this summer, but if you decide to
go, you will find a most cordial reception by Dr. Krauss, the
secretary, and I am sure he will make it quite pleasant for
you, and he will see to it that your case will be properly
managed.
With the best wishes, I am
Yours very truly, [signed] F. C. Askenstedt
1/22/21 Dr. Al C. Layne's letter re his work with EC between
1901-1905:
Griffin, Ga.
To whom it may concern.
This is to certify that I think one, Edgar Cayce, is one of
the greatest Phychics [psychics] of the 20th Century.
About 1901 he lost his voice and could not talk for quite
awhile, specialists claimed vocal chords were paralyzed.
I decided to use Psychology and found him to be an
exceptionally good Phychic [psychic]. He being able to
diagnose his own case, giving cause, and treatment to remove.
After this experience with him I had him to diagnose cases
for me up to 1905, diagnosing over one hundred cases. I
found his diagnosis correct in every case, giving cause and
treatment to remove same. I think if he would devote his
entire time to diagnosing with some one who knew how to
handle him properly, he would become the wonder of the
20th Century.
Yours very truly [signed] Dr. A. C. Layne.
1/20/59 Lois D. Freeman's letter to HLC:
880 Maywick Dr.
Lexington, Ky.
Dr. Hugh Lynn Cayce
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Dr. Cayce:
Your letter of Jan. 15 has been received, and I shall be
happy to comply with your request for information on the
life of Aimee Dietrich.
I read "There Is a River," several years ago and found Mr.
Sugrue's statements concerning my sister's case correct,
as far as I can remember. I myself was only a child at the
time. There was one mistake that he made, tho not of major
importance. He represents my mother, Mrs. C. H. Dietrich, as
having a conversation with a famous psychologist from Harvard
who visited Hopkinsville investigating Edgar Cayce's work.
To my certain knowledge that did not occur, as our family
moved from Hopkinsville to Winchester, Ky., in the fall of
1909.
Aimee L. Dietrich, 6 years old, pronounced a hopeless case of
epilepsy, improved rapidly after a reading by Edgar Cayce and
treatment by Dr. A. C. Layne. In three weeks time she was
able to sit up in a chair and cut out pictures. She entered
school the following year, attending schools in Hopkinsville
and Winchester, Ky. She graduated second in her class
from Winchester High School, and entered the University
of Kentucky in 1916. A year or two later the convulsions
recurred and medical treatment was ineffective. She became
interested in Christian Science and had a healing experience.
She reentered the U. of Kentucky and graduated with honors
in 1930 or 1931. In 1933 she suffered a severe case
of influenza from which she never recovered. Glandular
tuberculosis developed and she passed away on March 20,
1934, at the age of 37.
Signed: Lois D. Freeman, sister (Mrs. J. F. Freeman)
8/31/71 Mr. Walter J. Roth of Carmel, California, as told at
Asilomar:
MR. ADRIANCE: About the Dietrichs. What did you start to
tell me?
MR. ROTH: Well, as I came into the picture with Delight
Ramble in 1918 I was a service man at Cornell, Ithaca, New
York, and she was in charge of the music department of the
American Book Company in Cincinnati. She had gone to Cornell
to confer with Hollis Dan who had written the music book and
then, that was in 1918, but it took three years for me to win
her and in 1921 we were married.
I had some work at the Department of Agriculture at
Lexington, Kentucky, and that is where I met Lois Dietrich,
the father and Amy, the girl who had had this successful
experience with Cayce. I can't give you too many details
about the healing except that they were very much pleased
with Cayce's diagnosis of her problem. At first, this man
who attempted to make the adjustments which were necessary
for her recovery didn't do them properly and Cayce had to
repeat his instructions and finally it was successful.
I knew Amy at the lab from about 1929 - it must have been up
to 1936 - I went to Lexington frequently - but I think Amy
died later of Parkinson's Disease [see previous Report above,
sister's letter
1/20/59 saying that Aimee L. Dietrich died
3/20/34, at the age of 37, from glandular tuberculosis,
following a severe case of influenza in 1933]. Her sister,
Lois, her older sister, had married a man by the name of Joe
Freeman, who was in the Experiment Station at Lexington. I
think that's about it.
Recorded by: [signed] Robert A. Adriance
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation