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several times) a small check to Franzi & she said she had been cut off & asked what had happened. Mary told me they had paid Franzi as much as agreed to & they had no money to send. Gradually my tiny checks ceased & now [[strikethrough]] nothing [[/strikethrough]] to learn of her need! Ellen was what RM needed when he was dying ("I feel," he told me once in the hospital "that she is the only center I have" then told me of the effect of [[left margin]] RMS in hospital [[/left margin]]

[[top right]] RMS [[/top right]] 
[[right margin]] RMS in Shates Hosp [[/right margin]]

the injections on his mind - the feeling of being thrown into a grinder & the enormous effort to hold onto his mind so he wouldn't be driven insane. Ellen  never left the room whenever I came except that once ~ althoug after the first surgery Vick or I went often to see him & talk about work on the boards. He had become highly critical of everyone toward the end & this need he expressed for Ellen was an isolated loyalty - perhaps as explanation