5/27/27 EC's letter:
Dear Miss [
4586]
Many thanks for yours of the 18th. You know I did want to
see you and talk with you while I was in New York, but it
just looked like I was hindered by some way of ever getting
the opportunity. I tried to call you Monday, but the line
was busy and I never did get to it any more. I wish you were
coming down here on the 4th. Why don't you send that friend
of yours, or better still BRING him -
Now I'll tell you all about it - though of course I can't,
but I'll try to tell you enough that maybe you'll get the
idea.
Well, I went for a conference, but as usual when I get with
Dave and Morton it's readings for as much time as they can
keep me asleep - and on Saturday we certainly had a house
full when we had the reading. However, it seems there are
several of those that are interested and possibly that is as
good conference as we could have had. As I wrote you, the
State granted us the charter, which necessitates our having
the organization meeting within thirty days. We are holding
it on the 4th of June. Can't you be with us?
Now, I reckon you think I'm a long time telling you about it
- now that is not any sign that I'm not anxious, though, for
you to be here. Now the organization is the organizing of
the Association of National Investigators, Incorporated. Our
charter grants us the privilege of conducting schools,
lectures, hospitals, and everything along that line. We are
not entirely satisfied with our present arrangements for a
physician. I am afraid our physician is not as heartily in
accord with the work as one should be - possibly I misjudge
the man. I'm afraid he is a bit mercenary, for the work we
are trying to do. However, please remember I'm talking to
you and not for publication. Just what will be our first
step is hard to say. I just hope though that we'll get off
on the right foot. Of course the institution is my hobby,
but I don't merely mean HOSPITAL when I say institution.
But I think you should bring that friend of yours down to
the meeting on the 4th. I think now there will be Morton
Blumenthal and his wife, Eddie and his wife, and Dave and
his wife. The wives, I suppose, will do the talking, and the
men do the work. None of the wives, as I know of, are to be
officers in the Association. That will depend upon future
developments. We want the names of the original founders put
on our memorial plate. I sure hope we'll have yours and your
friend's both on that plate - a bronze tablet up over the
hall fount. But, so much for that! However, I guess you
would think that about all that I've said is that we'll
have a meeting and maybe a fount with some names on it.
I was real sick two or three days after I came back from New
York. Consequently got behind with my correspondence, my
work, and everything - but I'm feeling pretty good again,
and I hope everything will be better now.
I'm certainly glad to know your mother was pleased with her
reading. I feel sure as she gets started on her treatment
that it won't be long before she'll be feeling lots better.
I'm sure she will.
I don't think I have received the letter from your sister
[
4585] as yet. Possibly I'll find it in the mail before I
get through. Of course I don't ever overlook one of yours!
How's that? Not very good?
I'm sure you had a wonderful week-end, but I was certainly
sorry that I didn't get to see you. Certainly would have
been hard to locate you that Sunday night, for we were out
with the Doctor to dinner, and then drove I think over most
of the East side of New York.
Well, I'm looking for you down on the 4th.
Let us hear from you whenever you have the opportunity.
We are always mighty glad to hear from you. All send kindest
personal regards.
Many thanks for enclosure.
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
5/31/27 (Tuesday) [
4586]'s letter:
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I was worried about you! Dave 'phoned me the other day and
said you were not well, and since I did not hear anything
from you I was very much concerned. However, your letter
would indicate that you are feeling quite yourself again,
and, of course, that makes me happy!
O, I'm so proud of the results I have had from your reading.
Firstly, from the physical one. I believe I have improved
wonderfully, and you just wait until you see me! I'm feeling
nicely and, in my opinion, looking the part! Now, don't mark
that down to the "Conceit" Column of my ledger! When I feel
well I look it - and when I look it - I know it! Mother has
remarked so many times that I have improved wonderfully.
Well, you were no more disappointed than I was that I didn't
see you on your last trip. I just felt "out" of it and I'm
not going to let it happen again!
I'm crossing my thumbs and wishing that I can get down to the
Beach for June 4th. The time is the least part of it because
I can make it nicely. Dave mentioned it the other day when
I was talking to him, but his plans are always SO uncertain
that I don't pay any attention to them. However, if I can
make the proper arrangements, you'll see me down there, and
anyone else I can bring in that may do some good. Sh!
Yes sir, I want my name on that fount! and I expect to be an
officer - if capable. Is that putting it strong enuf?
About the physician, that doesn't hold up matters any,
does it? I do hope that he IS in accord with everything
concerning the work, otherwise I can't conceive how it
will work out with him.
I guess you didn't receive a letter from my sister [
4585].
The evening of the day I wrote you I asked her whether she
did write, as she threatened, and she told me that she could
not get to it that day, and I haven't heard anything about
it since. I won't attempt to ask her again until she speaks
about it to me.
6/10/27 [
4586]'s letter: [First part had to do with reasons
why she was unable to get to the A.N.I. meeting on June
4th.]:
How did the meeting pan out? I'm anxious to hear what's
what. Maybe I can come down and help in the organization
of it.
How? Well, things are absolutely winding up down here and
I think it's best that I pull out. I'm quite resigned to it
now and I believe I am "applying knowledge" in the right way
when I take this stand. I have talked to a few people I know
down here in New York and I am putting a few irons in the
fire, with the hope that I connect with as good a position,
if not better. You see it is difficult for me to get the
right sort of thing because I have attained something here
which is not so easy to duplicate.
6/11/27 EC's letter:
Dear [
4586]
Yours of the 10th just to hand. I don't think we've gotten
through missing you yet, for in fact we've been expecting
that you would walk in - but when you didn't show up on
Sunday Afternoon, we suspected something had gone wrong and
you passed us up for better company - no, that isn't a nice
thing to say, but you can't keep a fellow from thinking that
way that's been depending on a body!
No, our first meeting was really a success. While there were
not as many people present in person as we would have liked,
but all expect a few answered in proxy, and I think we got
started off in the right shape, and laid some plans for some
definite work, and we will of necessity have to have another
meeting before the first of August. Whether this meeting
will be called in New York or Virginia Beach, I don't know
just yet. I'm sure it should be in Virginia Beach, for it is
to consider the purchase of property - or I'd better say lot
- and the selection of the plans and specifications for the
erection of the institute - library, and lecture room; or, in
fact, as the readings give it, build a library and a lecture
room, and the institution around it. So we'll be calling on
you again to be on hand sometime in the near future. We are
trying to get all the data together and have it printed while
I am taking a little much needed rest, for I haven't been
feeling the best in the world lately and have had two or
three spells that haven't made me feel good. Who wouldn't
fall out, though, if they had begun to realize a dream of
thirty years? Yes, I think we will drive - if the little
flivver will take us - to Kentucky for a few days, going by
way of Washington, and returning by way of Knoxville. Yes, I
received the note from your sister - sorry I had to tell her
we would have to wait until we got back before making the
appointment. We had been intending to get away today or
Monday, but we had someone to come down from New York for a
special reading today - a Miss [
778]. Have you heard Dave
speak of her, or have you met her? Then Morton phoned us
that he was sending some special work that he wanted the
reading's correction or verification on before we carried it
to the printer. As soon as I get back, why I'll write you
again, sending you copies of all the data that we have - then
if you have any fault to find I want you to "spill the beans"
right.
So you are making arrangements to wind up! I've been
expecting it. When you take on those larger responsibilities
(which apparently won't be so large at first, but they will
possibly grow as time goes along), why I hope you'll have
time to consider our work from the many different angles
and help us out from time to time.
I don't understand why you didn't hear from those people in
Los Angeles [re radium pad for her mother's treatment]. I
certainly would write them again, because she needs that
vibration for her system, which is necessary if she gets
her normal equilibrium.
I'm glad you liked Mr. [
3904]'s reading too. I just wrote to
him a few days ago. I thought it was fine! and I think he's
on the right line, and wrote him that I though it was such
that he could apply it in a very definite way. I hope he
succeeds in doing so.
Yes, you may possibly be right about being able to see others
better than we can see ourselves. You know sometimes we
are so close to a thing that we can't see what's just on the
other side. That's why when a real friend properly tells us
of our own faults and shortcomings they are our real friends.
And that is also why when a good friend pats us on the back,
and tells us "I'm for you!" it does us so much good.
Yes, Hugh Lynn's home, and is about to have a fit to get
started going.
Let us hear from you whenever you can. All join in kindest
personal regards,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce ED:GD
6/24/27 She submitted a list of questions which David Kahn
suggested she get answered before making definite changes in
her work.
7/15/27 She requested Physical Reading for Mr. [
4391],
saying her questions were now "stale" because everything
had changed.
7/17/27 Letter asked if she might send other questions: "I
left my office on Saturday, so please address any mail to me
at home."
8/11/27 EC's letter:
Dear [
4586]
I feel so conscience stricken for not writing you long before
this, that I wonder if you will overlook my shortcomings
at this time and not feel you have been neglected when you
shouldn't have been. Somebody has said, I believe, that with
friends explanations are not necessary, and with others it
doesn't make any difference.
But there are so many things I would like to say, that I
hardly know where to begin. It was bad indeed that I didn't
have the opportunity to get the reading for you when you
wrote me at Hopkinsville - but we were unable to get anyone
to write anything, as of course Miss Gladys went to Alabama
and was not with us - and it would possibly have been worse
trying to get it and not having it written than not getting
it at all. I understand though from Morton that you have
made considerable change, and I surmised from your letters
that you wold be at home and possibly were considering
something else.
We had a mighty nice trip, and I guess it did us all a lot
of good. The only thing is that we have had so much on hand
since we came back that we haven't attended to more than
half of what we should. So many things of so many different
natures, that it has been very hard to know which ones to try
to attend to first - and maybe be neglecting the very ones
that we really should be attending to. But I'm in hopes that
before very long you will take the opportunity to get down to
the Beach again. We would all like to see you, and like to
know what you think about all of our plans and so forth.
I'm in hopes the reading that was gotten for Mr. [
4391] will
be very helpful - for, as you suggest in your letter, (it
is reflected also in his reading), he is very much in need
of some real optimistic thinking, and I am in hopes the
information as gotten will be helpful to him along that line.
I would like to know just what you think of it and how he
reacts to it also.
This I don't intend for an answer to your letters, but rather
to establish communication again, as it were - and I'm in
hopes that we will be able to get everything straightened
out real soon.
Let us hear from you whenever you have the opportunity.
Certainly am in hopes that your mother is still on the
improve, and that we can arrange to get the reading for
your sister sometime in the near future.
Hugh Lynn has been quite busy since we got back. We've had
lots of company - my wife's brother was here from Texas. He
has three boys - they're all nearer Edgar Evans' age though
than Hugh Lynn's - so Edgar Evans has been having quite a
wonderful time. I'm sure he misses them since they are gone
- but two of the boys from Hopkinsville that Hugh Lynn has
grown up with have been here since we came back - and they
have all been quite busy. So you see I have been having my
hands full from all sides.
Let me know, too, what you think about the pamphlet - about
the set-up, purpose and ideal - and let us hear from you when
you have the chance.
All send kindest personal regards.
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
8/10/27 Her letter crossed EC's in the mail, sending
membership application to A.N.I.
9/05/27 [
4586]'s letter telling about a vacation: "No doubt
you are interested in hearing something about my business. I
have a rather attractive connection with a very fine firm in
Wall Street. One of the members is a friend of my old chief.
Of course it is not quite like my old position but I could
not hope to sit right into anything like it offhand, so I
must exercise a little patience and wait until it develops
or until something else crops us that will be just what I am
after!"
9/07/27 EC's letter:
Dear [
4586]
I don't wonder that you didn't recall whether you answered
our last letter or not, after making you wait so long before
we did answer - and then going away and having such a nice
time. Anyway, we all realized that you didn't write.
I'm sure you must have had a wonderful trip, from what you
say. I have had a longing to go up in the mountains of
Vermont and New Hamshire, especially after may one summer
and spring experience in the mountains of New York. They are
gorgeous - beautiful! I'm in hopes some of these days I'll
have the opportunity to get up there. I'm glad you had the
trip and I know you feel better for it.
About the work of the Association, I am hoping that I'll be
able to come to New York for a few days sometime this month.
I hope then to be able to better tell you about what is going
on and what our plans are than I can by letter. Sufficient
to say that I am going to try to make a special drive for
memberships and contributions for the Association in the next
thirty days, that we may go right ahead with our building
program. So, if you think that will be the right plan, get
just as many of them lined up as you possibly can, and I hope
I'll be able to come up and "knock 'em over". How will that
do?
I am certainly glad to know that Mr. [
4391] is feeling a
whole lot better, and that he has a different outlook on
life. That alone will be worth a great deal to him.
We are taking the reading this afternoon for Miss [
4585] and
I'm in hopes we will be able to offer some suggestions that
will be helpful to her.
Let us hear from you every chance you have.
With kindest personal regards from all,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
10/18/27 EC's letter:
Dear [
4586]
We were agreeably surprised to have a letter from you. We
wondered what in the world had happened that we hadn't heard
for so long, but we realize that others can be just as busy
as we are and don't have the opportunity to write as often
sometimes maybe as they do - but we were right glad to hear
from you again.
Certainly glad to note that you have a very desirable
connection, and I am sure that it will be the stepping stone
for something more desirable. I'm just hoping it all works
out fine and dandy.
Yes, I have been considering coming up for some weeks now,
but it hasn't seemed exactly the right time. I don't know
whether I am slipping within myself as to making decisions,
or just what is in the way, but I suppose we all come to
those places once in a while where we apparently lose some of
the grip on ourselves and don't know just which is the right
way to make the next move. In some ways and manners things
have been going along most satisfactorily. While we haven't
been setting the woods afire, still we have applications
coming in every few days for membership. Some of course
take a stand against the Association - but we are moving
along towards the goal we have set before us. Some cause
discussions and dissensions that are quite bad, I think, at
times - but all in all many are very faithful and I am sure
will eventually work out in the proper way.
Everything is just in readiness for us to let the contract
for the actual erection of the building. The site is in
beautiful shape for the work, and seemingly we have a great
deal of interest in same both locally and in other parts -
yet not quite sufficient financially to push the thing over
right now.
No, I have not heard from Dr. Heimlech [her dentist]. No
doubt I will.
Everything is going along very nicely around the house. All
fairly well. Edgar Evans has been having a little trouble
with his throat and head, and - as he took cold Sunday when
we drove to Richmond to spend the day with Hugh Lynn (and
it is not a pleasant day outside today). He is staying home
today - but I think is coming along alright. All the rest
are pretty well. At least able to go to the table every
time it's set.
Hugh Lynn was looking fine. Says he's working pretty hard,
but has gained some ten or twelve pounds since he's been back
in school.
Glad to know that your mother and [
4585] are feeling good
again. Please give them our kindest regards, and let us hear
from you whenever you have the opportunity. With kindest
regards from all,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
12/16/27 [
4586]'s letter:
Dear Mr. Cayce,
How-do-you-do?
Sorry I did not see you before you returned home but
it seemed rather impossible. However, you were in my
thoughts right along - every minute.
We had a very nice meeting the other evening at Morton's
house. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Brown - and
indeed it was a pleasure!
This is strictly a business letter, so I had better be
careful that I do not incorporate a lot of "chatter" and get
off my trend of thought. You undoubtedly know that I was
elected Secy and Treas of the Club [A.N.I. Study Group -
N.Y.] - so this is my first business letter to you!
At the meeting we tried to come to some sort of a plan for
our next meeting - what should be discussed, etc., and it was
suggested by Mr. Brown that we secure from you the reading
which was given sometime in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, relative
to How the Forces Operate [[
3744] series], etc., etc.,
which would be read to the members and would give us sort
of a foundation to work up on. I hope you will be able to
determine, from this brief description, which reading I refer
to, and send it up home to me just as soon as possible. Mr.
Brown said if you are unable to locate this reading, he will
try to assist when he is in Virginia Beach, but I hope we can
locate it through you just as soon as possible.
I will send you a separate letter about myself real soon.
As ever sincerely, [
4586]
Regards to you & ALL.
12/22/27 EC's letter:
Dear [
4586]
Replying to yours of the 16th - it seems rather unique to
write to you in your official capacity. I was very much
disappointed at not seeing you at the meeting.
Now, regarding data for the Study Club, I am sure there is a
great deal of data on hand, and possibly if it was gone over
thoroughly a great many of the questions that will arise
in the minds of the members of the Study Club, as the
information here sent is read, would be found to be answered
- but, possibly the greatest good will be obtained by
studying the phenomena itself; that is, as we have here
practically the first information that was asked from the
sources themselves, as to what the work was, that is being
covered by theat being attempted in the work being attempted
at the present time; so, if individuals study this, get their
own reaction, and then gradually see - through the various
lessons that will be presented - the manner in which the
Forces themselves answer these same questions, and bring
out comparisons to show it, they will get more out of it.
Now, I have the data that Mr. Brown suggested. It, however,
has been gone over so often that it is compiled in a little
bit different shape. This sent you, however, is the first
time it was ever approached, asking how, and why, and what
it was - and in the prelude I give you why. I'm in hopes it
will be what you want.
To be sure, we will want to have a copy of the Study Club's
conclusion - possibly this may cover many lessons, if I don't
miss my guess!
We'll certainly be glad to hear from you whenever you have
the opportunity. With kindest personal regards to all from
all, and wishing you a very Merry Christmas, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
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