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"Your brother was unmanageable last night for about three hours. He is quiet at present. Unless he improves soon, fear we will have to put him in a hospital. Writing."

We expected your wife this morning, but I was told at your brother's house that he had received a telegram from you, stating that she would not arrive until to-morrow, Wednesday noon. 

I am glad to state that Mrs. Ribeyre is getting on most satisfactorily, and so is the little baby. But Francis is in need of the attention of some one who can exert a greater influence over him than I have found possible. He has had the best of medical care, and is extremely comfortable in his house at No. 124 Baltimore Avenue, West. The lack of sleep and nervous excitement have temporarily disturbed his mind, and he requires careful watching. The doctors have not yet decided to place him in an asylum, hoping to effect a cure in his own home, but I fear we may yet be compelled to send him to some institution.

As instances of his actions while under excitement, I think it wise to give you a few details. He imagines that his wife has been poisoned by her doctors; that there is a conspiracy to kill both his wife and their child; that he has no friends here; and that no nurse is reliable enough to take care of his wife. He threatened to kill one of the doctors, and last night, he managed