6/16/43 [
3650]'s letter:
..., California
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I have never heard of your work until a few days ago when
I heard a book review over the radio and one of the books
reviewed was "There is a River" by Thomas Sugrue. I
immediately secured a copy from my book dealer and upon
reading the work I found the names of several of my warm
personal friends. Dr. Percy Woodall of Birmingham, Alabama
and Manly Palmer Hall of the Philosophical Research Society
of Los Angeles are friends of mine, and Dr. Robert W. Bowling
was a close friend before his death. I believe that the
Doctor Bland spoken of on pages
147-8 of Mr. Sugrue's book
was Dr. Bowling [correct - GD] who was a graduate of a
regular medical school and was practicing medicine before he
lost his sight and became interested in osteopathy. He was
a fine anatomist and one of the finest lecturers I have ever
listened to. He taught anatomy and some other subjects in
the Southern School of Osteopathy and he left the Southern
School of Osteopathy to become a teacher with us at the
College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons in Los
Angeles.
I am quite sure that there was no other blind doctor
teaching anatomy at the Southern School for that institution
consolidated with the S. S. Still College of Osteopathy in
Des Moines in 1905, and Dr. Bowling came to us at that time.
I can easily check the matter with Dr. Woodall. You or those
with you may have misunderstood the name and thought it was
Dr. Bland instead of Dr. Bowling.
But this letter is not for the purpose of suggesting any
corrections in the book, but to seek your advice if that is
possible. I have a difficulty that I do not seem to be able
to overcome and I am sure that the main difficulty lies in
the gastro-intestinal tract with other possible effects,
either primary or secondary, in the pancreas, liver and
gall bladder.
Briefly, my history is this: Diphtheria when I was seven,
measles when I was ten. Toxic jaundice at 15 (duration about
10 days), Follicular tonsillitis followed by quinsy at 33.
broken right hip leaving 1 1/4 inches of leg shortening at
29. Broken rib in South Atlantic in 1936. Tonsils removed
at 35. Left hand amputated in 1942 for late X-ray effects
from the period between 1900 and 1906 when I was using the
X-ray for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. I inherit
SLOW gastric digestive tendencies from my mother and my
maternal grandfather.
In addition to the use of the X-ray as above stated I started
practicing general surgery in 1904 and took special courses
in surgery in the New York Postgraduate Medical School and
Hospital in 1908, and many courses in surgery, anesthesia,
obstetrics, etc. in the years that followed in institutions
such as Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital and the East
London Post Graduate Hospital in London, the Allgemeines
Krankenhaus in Vienna and the one in Munich, and in all of
the leading surgical clinics of America.
My practice since 1910 has been largely in the field of
general surgery and radium therapy, although I was teaching
orthopedic surgery in the College of Osteopathic Physicians
and Surgeons from 1908 to 1935. Osteopathic therapy
constituted my main professional activity from 1898
till 1908.
Since 1929 I have taken two trips around the world, spending
about three years in China, India, Palestine and Syria,
Egypt, South Africa, and from Capetown I came to Rio de
Janeiro and then to Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru
and Central America on my last trip around the globe. On my
first trip around I spent a year in Europe, principally in
Bavaria, England, France, Switzerland and Italy. I have made
seven trips to Europe so I know the continent pretty well
from North Cape in Norway to Thebes in Egypt and from the
Black Sea to Andelusia in Spain. I mention these matters so
that you may see that I may have exposed myself to many forms
of tropical disease and other maladies.
In travelling through the islands of the South Seas I was
affected by the heat on more than one occasion and I had
dysentery severely while going from Manila to Singapore and
some trouble in Siam and in India. I was in India during the
two trips to that country a total of nine months.
The laboratory reports on one occasion showed an active
dysentery from the entamoeba histolitica but laboratory
studies for the last two years have shown no evidence of
the amoebae or eggs.
I am one who uses very little medicine internally. I
departed from this rule for a short period to apply active
medication for the amoebiasis. I take a certain amount
of vitamines and organic salts in addition to those in my
regular foods. I have always used milk freely and use salads
and green vegetables also freely. I take two meals daily,
breakfast about 9.00 A.M. and dinner about 5.00 P.M. and
sometimes a little orange juice about 1.00 P.M., usually
nothing in mid-day. My use of cereals, bread and eggs
is moderate and I use meat sparingly. I have never used
tobacco or alcoholic drinks.
My symptoms are fullness in throat and upper chest with at
times a clutching feeling, more or less nausea when I awaken
in the morning, and always a dryness of mouth, metallic taste
and offensive breath for which I use sen-sen and cepacol
spray to the mouth and throat. There is no dental sepsis.
I am not sick and I am not well. The trouble started while I
was on a trip around the world, North of the equator in 1931
and has been constant but of variable intensity for the past
twelve years.
From your record I feel certain that I would gain valuable
information if I could secure a "reading" from you regarding
my case and of course I should be happy to pay for the
opinion and advice.
I was examined thoroughly by many doctors at the Mayo Clinic
in 1933 and again in 1940. They reported that they didn't
question my report on my subjective symptoms but frankly they
could detect nothing by which they might classify either the
cause or the nature of the malady.
I have had an occasional sharp pain in the region of the gall
bladder and an occasional one in the region of the spleen,
but the X-ray shows no signs of gall stones or kidney
pathology, and examinations of blood and urine, gastric
analysis, Wasserman and Kahn tests and electro-cardiographic
studies give no information as to the nature or cause of the
symptoms.
I retired from practice in 1942 immediately after the
amputation of my hand. I am not rich and I am not poor and
I wish to pay more than adequately for any suggestions which
you may furnish if you are still giving readings. I really
should like to understand my case more fully and my personal
mystical experiences of the past make me very understanding
and sympathetic with your procedures, and also make me
realize that my Guardian Angel is watching over me and
helping me every day that I live, so there is nothing so
very unique and incomprehensible for me in your experiences.
My stay at the ashram of Sri Ramona Maharshi at Tirannimali
and at the ashram of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry in
India proved to me that these great religions leaders have
lived through experiences similar to yours, although their
experiences have been applied in a different manner.
I am also certain that Manly Hall receives his great
wisdom from the same universal source that you receive your
information, although he avoids discussing these matters
because of the interminable controversy which has raged
and still continues over any and all subjects relating to
mystical or metaphysical experience.
Many of my close friends, high in the scientific and literary
fields, have had extensive experiences in metaphysics but
they will not discuss these matters generally because of the
extent of the disbelief in mysticism throughout the world at
this time; and yet there was never a greater mystic in the
whole history of mankind than Jesus.
Understand from Mr. Sugrue's biographical portrayal that you
were born just a few months before I was. My birth date is
Sept. 6, 1877 and I believe at 6.00 A.M.
I hope that you are still alive, that you still give
"readings" and that you can and will furnish me with
an analysis of my case.
7/14/43 [
3650]'s letter:
Mr. Edgar Cayce,
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I am indeed happy to learn of your life and work. It does
seem strange indeed that I never heard of you until a few
weeks ago - especially since I have known since 1898 of
the dependence which Dr. Andrew Taylor Still placed upon
clairvoyance in making his diagnoses.
I am a profound believer in the justice of God's laws and the
rightness of things as they are.
This last statement sounds paradoxical in the face of
the chaotic conditions prevailing in the world today,
but realizing that we only truly grow under conditions of
trial and adversity, it is quite believable that a thousand
benefits will come to mankind as a result of just what is
happening to mankind at this time.
We know that war increases our religious faith as well as our
true patriotism. Oh, of course, on the 4th of July in peace
times we wave flags and listen to platitudinous speeches and
call that experience true patriotism, but not until we send
our sons, sweethearts, husbands and brothers, yes, and even
our daughters, or go ourselves, to the battle fronts to
be wounded, to die and to kill do we truly know the fuller
meaning of love of country, and manifest the willingness to
sacrifice.
In a similar manner we go to church and conscientiously
try to be good citizens and have concern for human welfare,
but our deepest devotion comes only when human strength and
courage fail and our religious faith is all that there is
vouchsafed to us, and by which we are sustained.
War also breaks down inertia and changes fixed patterns,
usually for the better. It is easy to cite hundreds of
instances in which the erasure of inertia and the alteration
of fixed patterns have conferred multitudinous blessings
upon mankind. I could recite at least ten more fundamental
ways in which the present war has benefitted the race -
not the least of these is the economic faith and sense of
independence and security which the conflict has brought to
hundreds of boys and young men of my acquaintance, including
many relatives (blood and by marriage). It is with a
realization, almost of awe that I review the period from 1930
to the present time and note the change in psychology from
one of defeatism and almost helplessness of the thirties
to the confident aggressiveness and sense of security of
the present. One of my nephews with a wife and child was
dragging along on $65.00 per month, and is now a major in
the army with $480.00 monthly pay, and his brother at age
34, earning $75.00 per month and unable to marry for economic
reasons is now earning $350.00 per month working for Lockheed
and happily married.
Again the statement of Henry Ford that the 100 billion
dollars a year that the war is costing is a very low price
to pay for the scientific advance applicable to human welfare
that the war has produced. And so one might to on and on
citing the benefits from war, if we were not brought up
sharply by the realization of the horrors of war - its
brutality and inhumanities, and increase in youthful
delinquencies, the broken homes and broken bodies, the
terrific waste of time, effort and physical resources, the
religious degeneracy among those whose greed leads them
to exploit the world's plight for their own selfish
aggrandizement.
Wars must cease or civilization and even the human race
itself may become extinct. If the world would only realize
what might be accomplished for all living things by the use
of only a fraction of the costs of war to peacetime pursuits
and growth, it would seem that mass human integrity would
drive war from this earth forever.
It is only through fearless approach to philosophy and
laboratory experimentation (using the whole world as our
laboratory) that we can evolve under the dictum of Michael
Faraday's "There is nothing too wonderful to be true", or
Charles Stimmetz "If scientifically trained minds free from
bias and interested only on the discovery of truth would
apply their art in the development of knowledge of the
extra sensory fields, the accomplishments and progress would
be many times as great as have ever been realized in the
physical and biological sciences."
I have delayed writing this letter to you for I have been
having more painful symptoms in the region of the gall
bladder during the past two or three weeks and if it is my
fate to have a gall bladder operation I didn't know but your
"reading" might be more helpful to me after the operation
than before. The symptoms have now subsided somewhat and
so I am sending in my application for a "reading" at your
convenience.
My faith that whatever happens to me will be for my ultimate
good is so firm that I can await the course of events with
perfect confidence. My guardian angel has never failed
me yet during my 65 years of interesting life in this
incarnation, and whether on this planet or elsewhere my life
shall lead is of no real importance. I know that I shall go
on evolving and gaining in wisdom.
I should at this time like to testify that I am certain that
several of those who were formerly very dear to me in my
earlier years, individuals who have now passed to the extra
planetary realms are watching, guarding and directing me
through each passing day, and I am exceedingly grateful to
them. They know my appreciation without any testimonial but
I like to make it anyway, especially since there still exists
such a great majority of humanity that does not understand
evolution in its fullest sense.
I have just secured a copy of Paul Brunton's new book which
is just off the press and am reading it with double interest
since reading "There is a River". I was with Paul Brunton
at the Ashram of Sri Ramona Maharshi in Tiruvannemala, and he
invited me to go with him into Tibet but I found it necessary
to decline the invitation. Paul is a very courageous and a
very sincere student and writer and his new book "The Wisdom
of the Overself" explains his deepest convictions.
I am very glad that the Association for Research and
Enlightenment is in existence. I should be happy to send
them some of the spirit photographs taken of me at the home
of Mrs. Buxton in Crewe, England by Wm. Hope, the spirit
photographer, if they would be helpful in their work. I made
two trips to Crewe to see Mr. Hope and my appreciation and
love for that little man is unbounded.
Pardon this long letter. You see I have a kindly human
interest in you for I fully know and appreciate your honestly
just as truly and thoroughly as I understand the truth of my
own personal experiences which have been many, and so, fully
realizing the scientific need for sifting the wheat from the
chaff in the study of extra sensory phenomena, it is nice to
add another friend in whom I can repose absolute confidence
and can accept your findings with complete and perfect
assurance of your integrity and sincerity.
With every kind wish for you and yours, I am
Cordially yours, [
3650]
P.S. The check for one dollar herewith enclosed is for a
copy of "A Search for God."
7/21/43 EC's letter to [
3650] [in EC's own typing]:
Dr. [
3650]
..., Cal.
Dear Dr. [
3650]
Thank you for yours of the 14th and for your application for
membership to the Assn. As you can easily surmise we are
far far ahead with appointments, so if you accept the period
assigned and assure you it is the very first open period
just now, you will let us know where you will be at the hour
designated for the reading. The time will be - the morning
of the 2nd of Feb - 10.30 to 11.30 E.W.T. or 7.30 to 8.30
your time if you are in California at the time. Wish could
have made this sooner, but that is how the land lay.
Thank you for taking your time to write me as you have.
Would that might know you better and be personally acquainted
with you. Met Dr. Still once, what a man, so am still
accused of suggesting Osteopathy more often than other
treatments, maybe that did it - for had a treatment from him.
Yes, the argument for and against WAR is good depending on
what basis one places the reckoning.
Hope some day may have the pleasure of meeting you and having
a heart to heart conversation. Would like very much to have
some of the photographs you speak of, they would add much to
the data in the little Library here.
Do hope you have recovered from the attack with Gall bladder
and will not need an operation, have been caring for such
since operation for appendix in 1914, but still going
strong - n-o-w and then.
Thank you Dr. and let me hear from you often as you feel the
urge to write.
Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
9/14/43 [
3650]'s letter:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce:
At last I have received the enclosed history from the
printers and I am also enclosing a complete set of the
photographs mentioned in the history.
It is better that these pictures should not be shown
indiscriminately but rather exhibited only to such
individuals as you feel have a proper understanding of these
superphysical matters. There is no sense in "casting pearls
before swine" nor in revealing the deeper spiritual truths to
those who are not advanced to the point of appreciating them.
Of course, I am not trying to dictate and you can use them
anywhere that your judgment seems to justify.
I intended to write to you many days ago but I was awaiting
these histories from the press and I have been very busy
with other matters also - even though I have retired from
practice.
I have entered the time for your reading in my case in
my appointment book for Feb. 2, 1944 - (7.30 to 8.30 A.M.
Pacific War Time) and I will advise you in advance of that
just where I shall be at the appointed time.
In the event that someone with an earlier appointment should
die or cancel their appointment you may advance me to an
earlier date rather than change the appointments of the
intervening group, if you so desire. I am happy to have
my appointment at any date to suit your convenience.
My gall bladder condition seems to be much better for the
present.
It seems to me that the symptoms which I have in the mouth,
throat and chest originate in the intestines, gall bladder,
liver and pancreas. I also have a weak back which I have had
since early childhood which causes me to be round-shouldered.
My grandfather was very round shouldered and I suppose I
inherit something of this tendency from him.
Therefore, when my reading is given, two of the points upon
which I should like information are 1) what diet and other
strengthening procedures should I use to improve my weak
back, and should I use a back brace to assist in holding my
body in proper posture? and 2) what is the mouth, throat,
chest and alimentary condition due to, and what should I do
to correct my condition? These questions may be filed with
my application for a reading to be considered at the proper
time.
I received my copy of "A Search for God" and I appreciate it
very deeply. I hope that your group is enjoying the copy of
"Self Unfoldment" by Manly Hall which I sent to you.
I am benefiting greatly from my reading of two of Paul
Brunton's books - 1) "The Wisdom of the Overself" and 2)
"Beyond Yoga". I was with Paul Brunton at the Ashram of Sri
Ramona Maharshi in Tiruannimalai and at the Ashram of Sri
Aurabindo in Pondicherry, both in India, and therefore, I
have a double interest in his books.
I wish you to know how much I personally appreciate what you
have done and are doing for mankind and if war conditions and
gasoline regulations permit me to drive East next Spring or
Summer I hope to visit you in person. It has been my habit
to drive back to Washington, D.C. and New England every year
or two, but I haven't been to Virginia since 1941 on account
of the war. There is one private home for Overnight Guests
in Fredericksburg, Va. where I always stay every time I go to
Virginia.
Please feel free to ask me any questions you may wish.
I am so glad that you have afforded me additional faith in
the osteopathic philosophy and I do appreciate the fact that
"higher forces" acting through you have shown the validity of
the "osteopathic lesion" as a cause of disease in many cases.
All we ask for is truth.
With kindest personal wishes, I am
Cordially yours, [
3650]
P.S. I do not use the D.O. degree after my name in this
history because I do not wish any reaction against osteopathy
by those who might ridicule the contents of these histories.
[
3650]
10/01/43 EC's letter to [
3650]:
Dr. [
3650]
..., Calif.
Dear Dr. [
3650]
Thank you very much for yours of the 14th, also for the
pictures and the history of them. You are quite right
about the idea of trying to discuss such phenomena with some
people. I think I have learned that lesson through my 40
years of experience. We have your appointment for February
21, 1944 from 7:30 to 8:30 your time. Be sure to let us
know at the hour where you will be. If it should be possible
for us to work in an earlier appointment, we will, of course,
be glad to notify you, however, our requests are so numerous
that I doubt if we can get in an earlier date for you. Make
a list of questions and send them in just before the time of
your reading. I am glad that you like "A Search for God".
Several in the group are reading Mr. Hall's book you sent.
Thanking you very much for your interest and I certainly hope
that when traveling permits that you will get in to see us.
Hoping to be of a real service, I am,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce
11/22/43 [
3650]'s letter:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Virginia
My dear Edgar:
I am enclosing my check for the sum of $5.00 and I think that
I can arrange my affairs to send a like amount monthly for
the present.
I went though an operation for the removal of my left hand in
April 1942, and the loss of my hand forced me to retire from
practice with the consequent loss of professional income.
The pathology present in my case was cancer of the little
finger and marked vascular changes in the whole hand from
late effects from my use of the X-ray between the year 1900
and 1906. I never had the slightest X-ray burn of the hand
but changes were started at that time that manifested years
later.
I have already pledged myself to support many projects
such as the War Chest, the church, the Y.M.C.A. Red Cross,
Salvation Army, U.S.O. Research Program of the College of
Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, Loyalty Fund of the
University of Vermont (my Alma Mater), the Kiwanis Club
Youth Delinquency Program, Save-a-Child Foundation, Crippled
Children, Student Loan Fund, Boy's Town, Masonic Old Folks
Home, Masonic Orphans Home and several other organizations
and individuals, so it is my privilege to meet those pledges
before taking on additional ones.
I am deeply interested in your work, but I must sound a mild
note of caution in your case. You must refrain from trying
to do more than you can do constructively. It is going to
be impossible for you to serve all of those whom you wish to
serve, and it is better to recognize this fact early rather
than too late.
I found in my practice that it was impossible for me to
intelligently care for all of the patients who wished to come
to me, even working 14 to 16 hours per day. And your work
is so exacting that it will be very easy for you to overdo
- especially if you have economic as well as pathological
problems to disturb you and claim your attention.
In my case, the only way I could stand the pressure was to
take vacations of three or four months each year in Europe
or in the mountains, and then work very hard and very
continuously for the remainder of the year when I returned.
I think you will find it necessary to take these periods
of complete separation from your labors if you are going to
live to render your maximum service in your unique field. I
know how anxious you are to do all that you can during your
earthly life and I appreciate the fact that it is difficult
for you to refuse anyone when the need is so great, but
conversely, your work would cease entirely if you became ill
or died, and so it is much better to organize your life and
your work with all factors fully recognized.
I have just finished a book by Paul Brunton entitled "The
Wisdom of the Overself" which I have found very helpful, and
if you haven't a copy in your library I shall be happy to get
one and send it to you. Paul and I were together for a time
both in Pondicherry in French India, at the Ashram of Sri
Aurobindo and also in Southern India at the Ashram of Sri
Ramana Maharshi in Tiriwannamalai, so that I had an added
interest in this latest book of his. As you probably know
some of his other books are "The Hidden Teaching beyond
Yoga", "The Secret Path", "A Search in Secret India", "A
Search in Secret Egypt", "Indian Philosophy and Modern
Culture", "The Quest of the Overself", "A Hermit in the
Himalayas", etc - Published by E. P. Dutton and Company,
New York.
God bless you and your work.
Cordially yours, [
3650]
11/29/43 EC's letter to [
3650]:
Dr. [
3650]
..., Calif.
Dear Dr. [
3650]
I have yours of the 22nd, enclosing check for $5.00 as
contribution to the sponsored work here. I thank you
more than I can tell you. I appreciate it under the
circumstances, what you are contributing to our work. If
we can in any way, be the means of a help, be sure to let
us know. I know you are exactly right. There are many more
hundreds of requests than I can possibly attempt. I hope I
will never attempt to do more than may be done well, and I
trust that we will always be able to give the maximum amount
of help in every case. To be sure there are many hundreds of
cases that there is little or no material help to be had, but
can we in some cases, offer some spiritual advise, may it be
forthcoming in the right place and at the right time, and in
the right way. I realize that if the "blind lead the blind",
they will both fall in the ditch.
I have to every once in a while, get entirely away as it were
going to the mountain to pray, as well as having the prayers
of many, many hundreds of people everywhere. This, I know
is the only hope, for I am very, very human, and while I
have withstood criticism for a good many years, whether I can
be able to stand popularity or not, I wonder. I know many
people through the Good Book were able to do this. I hope I
may be.
Yes, a great many people write me about various books. I
wish it were possible for me to read them. This I have not
found very practical in my own personal experience. I do
very little reading, except in one Book - that is the Book
of Books. That I do read consistently. I just hope I don't
become so narrow nor so broad that I miss the real purpose of
the manifestation as has been possible through the years.
Thanking you again for your interest, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce, EC/vw
12/18/43 [
3650]'s letter:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Va.
My dear Edgar:
As I wrote you recently I shall be sending you my check for
$5.00 on or about the 15th of each month. I am interested
in your work and wish to do all that I can to make it as
valuable to mankind as possible. As Dr. Charles Mayo of
the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. said "I am anxious to
help restore to health just as many as I can before I die."
In your case, your unique gift has made it possible for you
to make a great contribution both to individuals in need of
your help and also to science - even though many so-called
scientists deal lightly with your true contribution to human
knowledge.
I believe that the books in my library which have afforded
me the greatest help in understanding and appreciating your
powers are those of Manly Hall (of which I have more than 50
published works), Paul Brunton's "Wisdom of the Overself",
Luther Burbank's "Harvest of the Years", Harry Emerson
Fosdick's "On Being a Real Person", Alexis Carrel's "Man the
Unknowns", Sri Aurobindo Ghosh's "The Basis of Yoga", Baron
Eugene Fersen's "Science of Being", L. Adam Beck's "The Story
of Oriental Philosophy", Francis J. Mott's "Christ the Seed"
and J. Krishnamurti's "At the Feet of the Master" and his
"Life in Freedom".
Also I have obtained great benefit from some of the writings
of Annie Besant and from the published finding on "The
Inter-relationship of Mind and Body" published in 1939 by
the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease
- Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore. Madame Alexandra
David-Neel in her book "The Mystery and Magic of Thibet"
and Sri Jagadis Chandra Bose in his laboratory proofs of the
Identity of functions in plants and animals (as sung on the
banks of the Ganges thousands of years ago) have been further
aids in establishing for me a premise from which logic
might lead and has led to satisfying conclusions regarding
heredity, environment, personal response and ultimate values.
I cannot begin to express my appreciation for the generous
manner in which you have given of your time and effort
throughout the last fifty years or more to mankind with
little or no thought of personal gain for yourself and only a
great and honest interest in, and desire to help others. Of
course, I am not so stupid that I do not realize that if you
had used your gift to exploit or deceive others your powers
would have been lost instantly, but the point is that you
have never had a thought of employing them unfairly or
unjustly. That is why you gain in strength and power with
each passing day - but you find just as George Washington
Carver did, that you must go to the woods, to the fields and
to the mountains from which cometh strength, to renew your
inspiration and power, and to reconsecrate your life to
God's purpose.
I wish to thank you for your nice letter of the 29th ult. but
I realize the tax you are under so do not add to the strain
by writing to me unless you feel impelled to write to someone
who truly understands the fundamentals of at least some of
your life's work - and your aspirations.
God bless you. May I wish you a Prayerful Christmas and a
Hopeful New Year.
Cordially yours, [
3650]
12/29/43 EC's letter:
Dr. [
3650]
..., Calif.
Dear Dr. [
3650]:
Let me express my appreciation and thanks for yours of the
18th. It is so unusual for us to get a letter from those in
the profession of healing like yourself, that it is rather a
unique thing with us. To be sure, we have a great number of
friends throughout the country, some in most all schools, but
it is so seldom we hear from them. We hear from them through
individuals more than we hear from them directly.
We, here, are trying to get together a lending library. We
of course, as yet have had very little means to purchase
books. There has been some contributions by a number of
friends and one or two groups of people or individuals have
sent in a a number of books. May we use your suggestions
here in supplying some of the books that would possibly be of
the greater interest to the people. A few of these of course
we have, like "Man, The Unknown", "Wisdom of the Overself".
The others I don't believe we have, and if from time to time,
you would supply us with other lists that you have found or
consider to be good, I would be very glad and appreciate it
very much. If we ever have any material that we might send
you that would possibly be of interest, I hope you will just
let us know.
I trust that you are on our regular mailing list and that you
will receive the bulletin and the research papers that are
mailed from time to time.
Thanking you again for your consideration, and contribution
to our sponsored fund, and wishing you happiness throughout
the new year, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC/vw
1/18/44 [
3650]'s letter:
Mr. Edgar Cayce,
Virginia Beach, Virginia
My dear Edgar:
I am enclosing herewith a list of some of the matters that
come to my mind at this time which might be touched upon in
the "reading" in my case on February 2nd.
If you wish to have me enter into the histories of any of
the subjects mentioned I shall be happy to do so. I am only
concerned in keeping in the best physical condition that I
can so as to be able to be of service to others as long as I
live. I suppose we all wish to avoid any prolonged illness
which will make us a burden to others.
My father remained in quite good health until he was nearly
ninety two and my father's mother died at ninety five so
I have a fair expectation in longevity, especially as my
mother's side of the family had nearly as good a record
for long life as did my father's.
With kindest wishes, I am
Cordially yours, [
3650]
The reading by Edgar Cayce may answer the following questions
or not just as circumstances dictate:
1. My left hand was removed to cure a cancer of the little
finger two years ago. Is there any evidence that cancer
cells from the finger have lodged and are growing in any
other tissue or organ in the body?
2. Is there any evidence of cancer in the left testicle or
epididymis?
3. Are there pathogenic parasites in the intestine,
liver, pancreas or other organ which interfere with
liver, pancreatic or spleen function?
4. What causes the bad breath and disagreeable taste in
the mouth shortly after eating - especially after eating
ice-cream, bread, cream or pumpkin pie?
5. What causes the symptoms in the upper chest of a feeling
of constriction with some pain, which has been present ever
since I was in Munich, Germany in 1931.
6. Is there active trouble in the gall-bladder at this time?
7. Would you advise me to go to Dr. W. B. Dakin for
preventive treatment for my prostate gland at this time?
8. Would intravenous treatment with penicillin for chronic
tooth infection or for any other infectious pathology be
advisable when penicillin is available?
9. Why do I have a very severe ache in the lower part of my
back while I am in bed - around 5.00 or 6.00 o'clock in the
morning - especially if I lie on my back?
10. Should I take vitamins other than Nutramin #2?
The above questions are only suggestions as to symptoms and
possible causes. Any suggestions which come through you as
to pathology, causes and suggestions for treatment (either as
to the above factors or others quite apart from them as the
"reading" may show) will be truly appreciated. God bless you
and help you.
REPORTS
Undated [
3650]'s note:
My dear Edgar -
Many thanks for everything. I'll write later as soon as time
will permit. God bless you.
Sincerely yours, [
3650]
3/07/44 EC's letter:
Dr. [
3650]
..., California
Dear Dr. [
3650]
Just a note of appreciation of your contribution to the
Living Sponsorship Fund. I am in hopes that this may be used
in such a manner as to get data contribute[d] to the welfare
of future generations.
With every good wish, I remain
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC/gm
4/20/44 [
3650]'s letter:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach
My dear Edgar:
The statement of Viscount Richard Haldane "My belief that
the more experience is spiritual the more it is real" has
influenced my whole life during the past fifty years; has
been a guiding beacon for me for many, many years for it is
my opinion also.
My two trips to India and my association with leading
educators and philosophers of that land whose culture is of
such magnitude and antiquity that Will Durant writes "when
America has been able to develop one tenth of the culture of
India it can then begin to consider itself a great nation",
have afforded me added comfort and poise.
Our obligations in art, literature, science, religion,
philosophy and all human knowledge are universal for we
have inherited from all lands and all peoples from Atlantis,
Egypt, China, India and down through the ages to the present
day and my own travels through the seven seas and all of the
continents make me very humble and very appreciative of the
contributions we have received from those "who have gone
before." As Sir Isaac Newton expressed this appreciation
"the reason that I seem to be able to see more clearly than
many of my contemporaries is because I am standing on the
shoulders of giants." By this statement Sir Isaac meant that
by studying the wisdom of his predecessors - such men as
Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Aknaton, Jesus, Socrates,
Buddha, Sir Francis Bacon, Pericles, etc., he was able to
stand on the broad platform of their combined knowledge to
comprehend the present and glimpse the future of mankind with
greater clarity than most men of his generation.
My travels have not only made me tolerant of other races and
familiar with their dress, habits and customs but they have
made me appreciative of the common foundations of all of the
great religions of the world throughout the ages.
My good friend, Manly Palmer Hall is possessed of extra
sensory perception in a marked degree just as you are Edgar,
and so all of his books (and he has written more than fifty)
are of great worth to me in understanding the meaning of life
(for there is no death) and in assisting me to be helpful to
others.
His two books - "Facing the Facts" and "Facing the Future"
deal instructively with current educational, political,
economic and governmental problems, while his books -
"Healing - the Divine Art", "How to understand your Bible"
and "The Lost Keys of Masonry" open a new understanding
of how much we owe to antiquity for our philosophy, our
religion, our sciences and our social economy.
I have reached a new and beautiful appreciation of the
Christian and Jewish Scriptures by reading and rereading
his "How to Understand your Bible" and applying that
understanding to our everyday problems. In a practical
sense I can now better understand how Luther Burbank was able
to accomplish the "miracles" that he did and what was the
driving force that brought to Henry Ford the ability to make
his great contribution to the world's civilization in the
industrial field and in the cultural reconstruction of
America.
In England and Scotland Manly Hall has been called "America's
greatest philosopher" and I am certain in my own belief that
in the years to come the whole world will recognize Manly as
America's Greatest.
When I first began to study Manly Hall's books some eighteen
years ago I thought I understood them quite well, but during
the past eighteen years my understanding and appreciation
have so widened that as I look back now over the course that
I have travelled during the past two decades I realize how
really deficient in understanding I was even 15 years ago.
I realize that most of Manly Hall's writings will be
comprehended and appreciated by only the few who can truly
evaluate esoteric meanings and yet he is so gracious that
when I have him lecture at our Kiwanis Clubs and other groups
of business and professional men, students, etc. he brings
his talks down to a level where any twelve to fourteen year
old boy can understand him perfectly, and his every audience
is just thrilled with his words of wisdom and high purpose.
I had him talk to 125 men at our Glendale Kiwanis Club
two weeks ago on the subject "A Philosopher's View of the
Post-war World" and of all the fine speakers appearing before
our club none has so profoundly affected his hearers or
received such universal acclaim.
Manly Hall thoroughly believes in the necessity of the study
of comparative religions and I am entirely in agreement with
his views and experience but you may have no interest in any
departure from some simple Christian faith of your childhood
and under no circumstances would I endeavor to change the
faith of anyone. My wife wishes to continue the beautiful
faith in which she grew up and she can find no interest
or comfort in Manly Hall's "How to Understand your Bible"
whereas for me the Holy Bible has brought a message ten
times as beautiful and practical since I read and reread this
interpretation. In childhood I was filled with questions
about which I seemed to find no help in satisfactorily
solving, but with Manly furnishing the key with which to
unlock the mysteries the solutions just naturally come as a
matter of course. In the philosophical section of "There is
a River" I found similar help.
One day Dr. E. Stanley Jones and I were talking and he told
me of a sojourn of a month that he passed in the Ashram of
Mahatma Gandhi. During that period the two men would have
a daily discussion. On alternate days throughout the month
each would explain to the other what religion meant to him.
Their discourse was most kindly, temperate and tolerant and
the end of the month of expressing their views to each other
Dr. Jones was just that much stronger Christian and Gandhi
was just that much more sure that he was right in his worship
of Shiva. What was unquestionably true was that here was
very little difference in the views of these two great
religious leaders as to the importance of the great
fundamental principles upon which true religion rests.
There undoubtedly was a difference of opinion regarding
reincarnation, regarding the difference between the lives
of Christ and Krishna, regarding the meaning of the Garden
of Eden, etc. but as regards morality, mutual helpfulness,
the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God, what
constitutes the good life and what the forces of evil
are there was probably little difference of opinion.
And so there is hope for the world when two great religious
leaders of different faiths can discuss great religious
problems in mutual helpfulness and mutual kindliness.
I do not recall whether I have sent you copies of "Facing the
Facts" and "Facing the Future" by Manly Hall or not, and so I
am sending copies under separate cover.
The little check enclosed is just a slight expression of my
appreciation of the work you are doing. God bless you.
Cordially yours, [
3650]
5/03/44 EC's letter to [
3650]:
Dr. [
3650]
..., Calif.
Dear Dr. [
3650]
Thanks very much for yours of the 20th, wish might have the
opportunity to talk with you at some length, while am not
making excuses for my ignorance or the material disadvantages
to which have been placed, do appreciate your letter and your
interest in our feeble undertakings here, am sure we must
be adding a bit to the comfort of the physical well-being
of many and lets hope a word now and then to those disturbed
otherwise. To be sure have heard Mr. Hall lecture and we
have several of his books in the Library here, believe it
was you who sent us the two - Healing - the Divine Art - and
How to understand your Bible. Too bad for me am such a poor
reader, but do possibly get enough from them by hearing them
discussed by members of our groups here who do read them, as
to know something of their worth, and do wish to thank you
for the two you are sending now. Just hope some day to get
to read them myself, more of their worth might be passed on
through me. Yet am for some reason hindered from reading
much save the Bible as it is written. The thoughts tho you
express about great teachers being of one mind and differing
only in some minor problem - am sure would we stress the
things in which we agree, and then LIVE them and say less
and less of the differences we would make the world much
more spiritual conscious.
Personally would like to know something of what has prompted
the minds and hearts of all the great writers, but being
hindered as am, will have to await the time when am
privileged to do this. But am I to ask others to even listen
to what may come through the messages as may come through me,
am impelled to live and act as they direct me. Possibly this
may be "the blind leading the blind" yet "by their fruits ye
shall know them."
Just wish to thank you again for your help in contributions
and great help in your letters. With every good wish, and
HIS blessings. Sincerely, Edgar Cayce
4/25/45 [
3650]'s letter:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Va.
My dear Edgar:
I am glad that the Association for Research and Enlightenment
has been formed and is trying so conscientiously to bring man
closer to his Creator and Director.
With all of the horrors of war fully realized, the boys who
have served on the various battle fronts are coming back and
will continue to come home with a fuller realization of their
own Spiritual Reality and their privilege and obligation
to convey to others just what their religion has meant to
them when everything else upon which they have rested their
faith and dependence in the past is swept away and they find
themselves courageously acknowledging their lack and humbly
appealing for the assistance of their Guardian Angel and
their God.
Fortunately for me the past fifty years have proven
conclusively that I can depend upon Divine Aid when I truly
need it. Times too numerous to mention in my life have
proven the correctness of this assertion. As Viscount
Haldane in his autobiography states "The realization that
the more things are spiritual the more they are real has
influenced my whole life during more than fifty years".
And I am able to verify that statement through my own
experiences.
There is a wave of true religious understanding encompassing
the world now and it will surely bring a brighter day.
You always have my best wishes and I think of you often.
Sincerely yours, [
3650]
4/29/46 [
3650]'s letter:
Tucson, Arizona
Association for Research and Enlightenment
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Folks - I wrote the enclosed check a Month & more ago
but have had so many things to attend to recently that it has
not been sent.
I am on a trip to the Atlantic Coast and it may be possible
for me to drive by Virginia City & say hello.
I really am interested in the research that you are
conducting and the results you are securing. I am also
interested in the work of the Landone [?] Foundation at
Orlando Florida and the researches of Manly Hall & the
Philosophical Research Society.
I have been wondering how many of Manly Hall's books you have
in your library - I should be happy to purchase & send you
some of his later works if I have a list of those you already
have. Of course, I believe that "There is a River" should
be in every library and every branch throughout the country.
Some of the books such as Sir Jas. Jeans "Physics &
Philosophy", White's "Across the Unknown", Francis J. Mott's
"Consciousness Creative". The most recent works of Carl
Jung and of Max Planck; all should have wider reading &
appreciation.
There are many, many others which are factual and most
stimulating.
Hoping to visit you sometime this summer, I am
Cordially yours,
5/04/46 HLC's letter:
Dr. [
3650]
..., Calif.
Dear Dr. [
3650]:-
Thank you for your letter of April 29th, enclosing your
check for five dollars. We have applied this on an Associate
Membership and enclose a blank for you to check and return to
us, also your membership card.
From your letter I gather that you may already be headed this
way, so this may not reach you soon. I do want to call your
attention to our Congress June
17-23. It would be fine to
have you with us at that time, or for a visit at any other
time during the summer. I enclose a preliminary announcement
of the Congress meetings and will mail you the printed
program a bit later.
Your suggestions regarding books shows a fine knowledge
of this general field. We would greatly appreciate any
contributions you care to make to the library. We need a
good library to parallel our study of the information in our
files, as well as a way of stimulating the thinking of our
members. We look forward to the development of a circulating
library system through our study groups. Of Hall's books we
now have: HOW TO UNDERSTAND YOUR BIBLE, LECTURES ON ANCIENT
PHILOSOPHY (I like this one very much), SELF UNFOLDMENT, THE
LOST KEYS TO MASONRY, and HEALING.
We look forward to seeing you this summer.
Sincerely yours, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
5/29/46 HLC's letter:
Dr. [
3650]
Dear Dr. [
3650]:-
It was a real pleasure to have you stop and chat with us
yesterday. Even in the short visit, I hope that you and your
wife were able to get a little better picture of our work.
Please feel free to give us any constructive suggestions
which you believe will aid us in being of greater service.
The following are a few of the physicians who have handled
cases for us in the past. I have marked with (*) those who
will be at the Congress and who will have a part in shaping
the plans for the research work on the physical readings. In
your talks with them pass on any ideas that you may have for
the proper handling of this phase of our work.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Lulu Irene Waters, D.O., 1707 Columbia Rd.
WILMINGTON, DEL. (*) Dr. Henry George, III (D.O.),
2212 Baynard Blvd. (Grandson of Henry George, author
of PROGRESS AND POVERTY)
NEW YORK, N.Y. (*) H. J. Reilly, Physiotherapy, RCA
Building, 6th Ave.
Dr. George Coulter (D.O.), 18 East 41st ST.
Morton Singer (Dentist), 8 West 40th St. (Interested in
general research)
BOSTON, MASS. Charles Wakeling M.D. & D.O.
I have listed only a few of the doctors in each of these
places as I do not want to impose on your time. However,
I have selected men in each case who have had unusual
experiences with the readings. Your conversations with
them would help us and, I believe, be of interest to you.
Here also are a few names of individuals whose long years of
experience with our work and their general interest in the
field of psychical research will give you many mutual points
of view. You will recognize some of the names from the book,
THERE IS A RIVER.
David E. Kahn, 244 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y.
Thomas Sugrue, Hotel Seymour, 45th St. bet. 5th and 6th, New
York, N.Y.
Douglas T. Johnston, 247 Park Ave., New York, N.Y.
All three of the above are interested in the creation of
the EDGAR CAYCE FOUNDATION which will be concerned with the
detailed work of indexing and extracting from the readings.
If you have the opportunity of stopping in Virginia Beach on
your way home please do so. We would welcome an opportunity
to talk with you about many phases of our program and its
relation to what is being done in other sections of the
country.
Sincerely yours, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
6/01/46 [
3650]'s letter:
Washington
My dear Mr. Cayce.
I had a long conversation with Dr. Lulu Waters this
afternoon & she is greatly interested in the whole field
of extra-sensory diagnosis, therapy & recordings with
classification. I shall see her in New York at the A.O.A.
Convention at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York next month.
I know you are doing a wonderful job under severe handicaps
in recording, classifying & making available your father's
readings.
Today I received by mail a copy of Manly P. Hall's lecture on
"Suggestion, Auto-Suggestion, and Hypnotic Diagnosis."
It is a masterful presentation of this field of research & as
soon as it is published I shall send you a copy.
I am sorry to have bothered you to search for my wife's
Hamilton Watch - I was hoping that it would turn up
somewhere, for it disturbs me to think that our colored maid
at the Montecello Hotel in Norfolk may have stolen it & so I
was anxious to search every conceivable place that it might
have been lost or mislaid. Thank you for your cooperation &
with our best wishes I am
Cordially yours, [
3650]
P.S. The watch has not been found.
3/22/48 [
3650]'s letter:
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce,
Edgar Cayse Foundation,
Virginia Beach, Va.
My dear Lynn:
I remember our conversation in 1946 with a great deal of
pleasure. I think that your are doing a splendid work
in continuing so far as possible the help, both material
and spiritual, that your father gave to the world. And I
know that your consecration and devotion will add to man's
understanding in many ways throughout the years.
During the past two years I have given a great deal of study
to just what my field should cover in making my greatest
contribution to the advancement of mankind and I have decided
that for the next two or three years I should drop out
of any association with the Association for Research and
Enlightenment. After I have advanced father in the research
in the cancer problem to which I have consecrated my life, I
may be very glad to seek your advice and assistance.
Just at present, however, and I am sure for the next two
years, any attempt to correlate my search and interpretation
of the findings of the National Cancer Institute, at
Bethesda, with the readings of Edgar (in the varied fields in
which he operated) will prove confusing rather than helpful
and will be too great a drain upon my vitality.
I have my background of nearly fifty years of dealing with
cancer by the routes of diet and exercise, X-ray and radium
therapy, and such varied surgical procedures as those of cold
steel, electrolysis, electrical coagulation and desiccation,
Percy cautery, Paquelin cautery, and electric scalpel and
other modalities of actual cautery, as well as such chemical
surgery as those with the use of Nitric acid, carbon dioxide
snow, (I never did use liquid air) potassium and sodium
hydroxide, dichlor, and trichlor acetic acid, the Tilton
cancer paste, and other chemical escharotics.
I am justly proud of the percentage of lives that I have
salvaged by these procedures but still not satisfied with
what has been accomplished in the fields of prevention and
cure of cancer in all its varied forms.
Such great advance has been made in the field of biochemical
research in malignancy in the last ten years that I must
concentrate on my studies along these lines with the help
that I am getting from such books as the Biochemistry
of Cancer, by Jesse Greenstein, the Physiological Basis
of Medical Practice, by Best and Taylor, the "American
Association for the Advancement of Science Conference on
the Results of Cancer Research", the "Approaches to Tumor
Chemotherapy" by the A.A.A.S., the "Treatment by Diet" by
Barborka, 1948 edition, "Neoplastic Diseases" by Jas. Ewing,
etc., together with almost countless articles in many medical
and scientific journals on the various phases of malignancy.
I am writing this explanation so that you may fully realize
that even though I am deeply interested in the work that you
are doing, I feel certain that if I am to be permitted after
my physical death to bring back to other seekers in these
fields, the greatest good for the greatest number I must
acquaint myself as fully as possible with what science has
yielded, before I pass to the Great Beyond.
My eyes will not permit me to study and correlate
the readings of the A.R.E. and the other study and
summarizing which I must do. I hope that you understand.
Manly Hall and I speak frequently of the work done by Edgar
and he is very sympathetic with the work that you are doing.
I hope that when you are in Southern California you will
visit his wonderful library - Philosophical Research
Association at 3341 Griffith Park Blvd., Los Angeles 27,
and I hope you will also visit the campus of the College
of Osteopathic Physicians and the Surgeons with which
institution I have been identified for more than fifty years.
If I can act as your guide through these institutions I shall
be happy to serve you.
Although I am not proceeding with any further connection with
the Association for Research and Enlightenment I am enclosing
my check for the sum of $10.50 for three copies of "There is
a River" by Thos. Sugrue for friends of mine, and if I can
find the name and publisher of a later book about Washington
written by the same author I should be glad to order it.
I am indeed grateful that his life was saved through the help
of Edgar and yourself.
A friend of mine just presented me with the review of "There
is a River" in Tom Brennaman's magazine.
I am sure that Edgar's life and work will have greater and
greater meaning as the years go by.
I wish you every success and fulfillment in the field that
you have chosen and in which your consecration is so needed.
Furthermore, I hope that you will not feel that I have
deserted the cause of philosophy and metaphysics in so
strongly realizing my basic needs in the physical and
biological sciences for the present. Please remember
also that I am deeply impressed with the significance of
psychosomatic medicine (e.g. in "Gastric Digestion" by
Wolf and Wolfe), and the role of extra-sensory perceptions as
outlined in "Reach of the Mind" by my friend John Rhine of
Duke University.
It is through the full comprehension and utilization of
hypotheses like the one enclosed that I am endeavoring to
expand my horizon.
As is usual in such adventure the conquest yields the
commonplace, and this in turn yields a base from which
further exploration becomes possible, I might almost
say, inevitable.
I am sending you under separate cover an unedited transcript
of a recent lecture by Manly which for me contains some of
the essentials.
Again best wishes.
Cordially yours, [
3650]
P.S. This is a rambling letter but I do not find the time to
edit and rewrite it, but I am sure that you sense my mood and
my problem in seeking the fuller understanding of the results
of experimental research in the biochemistry of tumors in man
and animals.
[See Source File Key #3650 for a chart "Three Hypothetical
Factors Necessary for Carcinogenesis" by Frank H. J. Figge,
Ph.D., University of Maryland, re 3650-1.]
3/27/48 HLC's letter:
Dr. [
3650]
..., Calif.
Dear Dr. [
3650]:-
I certainly appreciate your writing me as fully as your did
in your letter of March 2nd. I can entirely understand your
point of view. I will be happy if you will keep me advised
of progress in your research work and let me know if we may
be of help at any time.
As you know, I expect to be in Los Angeles for our Western
Conference there on April 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and hope at that
time to have a chance to see and talk with you personally. I
will be staying with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ballbusch, 2359 Loma
Vista Place, Lost Angeles 26, Calif., and of course, will be
at the regular meetings at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Thank you very much for your order for three copies of "There
Is A River". These are being mailed to you today.
I would certainly consider it a privilege to meet Manly Hall
personally while I am in L.A. as I have been an admirer of
his activities for many years.
Sincerely yours, Hugh Lynn Cayce HLC/dm
4/17/48 [
3650]'s letter:
The Edgar Cayce Publishing Co., Inc.
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Hugh,
It was nice to see you again at Manly's Library.
I forgot to inquire as to Thos. Sugrue's physical condition
at this time. It was on my mind to do so just before you
arrived at 3341 Giffith Park Ave. but the trend of other
events drove it form my mind until after we had parted
company. I hope that his improvement during the past
two years has been satisfactory.
I am looking forward to his new book "Stranger in the Earth"
and I am enclosing my check for a copy of the same.
I hope that your meeting in Hollywood was highly successful.
Best wishes, Cordially yours, [
3650]
5/20/48 HLC's letter:
Dr. [
3650]
..., Calif.
Dear Dr. [
3650]:-
It was a real pleasure to see you in Los Angeles and
I greatly appreciate your interest in arranging for my
meeting with Manly Hall.
By this time, you have probably received your copy of
STRANGER IN THE EARTH. It will interest you, perhaps, to
know that a few minutes after the book closes in time, Tom
Sugrue picked up the telephone and called Edgar Cayce for a
physical reading. From that point on, he began gradually to
improve. He told me last night over the telephone that he
had this week been on three radio programs, had spoken at two
luncheons, including one in Hartford, Conn., and all in all,
put in a rather strenuous week. He is still getting around
with difficulty, but he is getting around, and physically, is
in excellent health except for the results of the crippling
effects of the serous burning that took place in the fever
machine treatments.
I look forward with great interest to keeping in touch with
you regarding cancer research. Miss Davis is now working on
our cancer material and it will be available to you before
too long now.
Best wishes from all here.
Sincerely, Hugh Lynn Cayce HLC/dm
1/26/50 Wife's letter:
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce,
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce:
Your letter of the 21st inst. addressed to Dr. [
3650] has
just been received by me.
I am sure you will learn with regret of the death of Dr.
[
3650] on March 20th last. He was ill for a period of three
months prior to his passing, his trouble being diagnosed as
virus pneumonia. He did not respond to any treatment. An
autopsy was preformed and a beginning cancer was found in
the chest. Because of this fact I am thankful that he was
taken and was thus spared probably a great deal of future
suffering.
He was a great soul and looked forward with keen anticipation
to the unfettered life beyond.
In your letter you say you are "mailing under separate cover
a selection of current papers." These have not arrived as
yet, but when they do I will return them promptly so that
you may place them elsewhere.
Very sincerely, (Mrs.) [...] [[
3650]'s wife]
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