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Of all the subjects written anent the controversy of this hospital, I am sure that this hospital is what it is and is what it should be. I have worked for this hospital and this stronghold, and I am certain that I have nothing to reproach myself … and that things are what they are and will be what they ought to be.

Yours very truly,

Joseph Cassel

P.S. This letter makes everything clear between the two of us. There is nothing wrong. Everything is O.K. We are not in odds and ends. And, as for me, I have no wish to argue with you. Things are only what they are, and one continues to work for the benefit of what it is. As for what I am, I am what I am. Yes, I am only what I am!

May 19. At the group meeting, Joseph says: “I haven’t the slightest idea of how I’m going to get out of here. I used to have but my ideas didn’t work.”

—What ideas?—

“Well, your parents would do something about it.”

He goes on to say: “Dr. Yoder said I mustn’t think of this hospital as an English stronghold and if I insisted he might cut off my medicine—but it hasn’t been cut off. I can call it an American hospital too, but I would refuse to say it’s not an English stronghold.”

May 23

Dear Joseph:

I have received your two letters of last week and I write to say that the purpose of potent-valuemiocene is to give you back values, which means to make you more realistic, which means that potent-valuemiocene is designed to overcome your delusion that Ypsilanti State Hospital is an English stronghold.

I would therefore say that potent-valuemiocene is not doing you any good if you continue to believe that Y.S.H. is an English stronghold, and since it is not doing you any good should be terminated.

However, should you wish to make the following statement and sign it I would say that potent-valuemiocene is doing you good and should be continued:

“I, Joseph Cassell, do hereby state that

Ypsilanti State Hospital is not now and

never has been an English stronghold.”

Let me emphasize that you do not have to sign this statement if you do not wish to.

Also, I hope that whether you decide to sign or not to sign you will continue to write me, and I write you, because I will always love you like a father loves his son. Needless to say, I will continue to send you the usual token, as I do now, regardless of whether you do or do not wish to sign the above statement.

I will withhold a final decision to terminate or not to terminate potent-valuemiocene until after I hear from you. This, of course, will not affect your continuing on the capsules.

Cordially,

O. R. Yoder, M.D.

P.S. I have just gotten your other letters and want to assure you again that there is absolutely nothing wrong between us.

May 23

My dear dad,

I want to thank you for the last letter, withal, for the .25. Thank you very, very much for both!!

I am awfully gleeful that you state in your last letter that there is nothing wrong between us. Since there is nothing wrong, I ought to keep my medicine, potent-valuemiocene, and I thank you for it. I thank you, withal, for your statement in regard to this hospital, or in regard to an English stronghold. Well, you write: “Let me emphasize that if you do not wish to …” this, in regard to what I think this hospital is, I do not have to sign anything. I must say that I do not have to sign to the “I, Joseph Cassel, do hereby state that Ypsilanti S.H. is not now and never has been an English stronghold.”

Yours very truly,

Joseph Cassel

Potent-valuemiocene has helped me greatly, since I started to take it! I thank you for your having prescribed to me such an invaluable medicine. . . .

May 26

Dear Joseph:

Thank you very much for your letter of May 24. I want to repeat that everything is all right between us. As I said, if I had some evidence that potent-valuemiocene was doing you some good, I would be glad to continue it, but as yet I have absolutely no evidence whether it is doing you any good and, therefore, I will terminate it on Monday unless I hear from you before then that this medicine is making you more realistic. So, if you wish to