Your wife is in a sanitarium, as you have discovered.

She is mentally ill--rational at times--violent at moments, and for long periods quite docile, gentle, harmless--content to be talked to, read to, advised, persuaded.

But during the last week a change of a certain nature has occurred which--which, I am told by competent physicians, not only renders her case beyond all hope of ultimate recovery, but threatens an earlier termination than was at first looked for.

It is this: your wife has become like a child again--occupied contentedly and quite happily with childish things.

She has forgotten much; her memory is quite gone.