July 8 - 1940

Mr. Clinton Davidson,
Trust Company of New Jersey Building,
Jersey City, New Jersey.

My dear Mr. Davidson:

In response to our telephone conversation of this afternoon, I wish to state the following.

Mr. Marshall Field consulted me some time in June, 1933, because he was under considerable tension due to marital difficulty. The consultations continued regularly for a time, and then more or less irregularly until September, 1935. I have seen Mr. Field - not professionally - many times since and found him consistently in excellent physical and mental shape. At no time during the period of our professional contact did I find in Mr. Field any evidence of nervous or mental disease, or severe incapacitating neurosis. The problems he had been facing were created by a series of unfortunate circumstances of a personal nature - the most prominent of which was marital complication.

This marriage was dissolved; Mr. Field re-married and ever since he has remained a well-adjusted, happily married and serene individual.

Yours very sincerely,

April 6, 1936.

My dear Marshall:

It is always good to hear from you and the
news that Chavez is coming to conduct for two weeks
is particularly gratifying because I like the man
and according to experts he is a serious musician.

Thank you very much for the information about
the bull. You must have misunderstood me. I had
in mind a real youngster a couple of months old who
could run along growing up on my place, reach
manhood under my psychoanalytical guidance, and
then be duly provided with the bullish wherewithall.
I have one mature male now who is doing his duty
creditably, but in another year and a half the
gentlemen will have so many ladies as his descend-
ents, that to protect my good name against being
besmirched by King Oedipus, I would like to raise
his successor from another strain. As to exchang-
ing your cow, I have a severe resistance to it and
I refuse to analyse it. She is my prize animal.
Her name according to your papers is Northern
Sunshine and Sunshine she truly is. How could I
part with her for a mere male?

Should you have some free time soon, will you
let me buy you a luncheon or a drink?

As always,

Mr. Marshall Field,
250 Park Avenue,
New York City.

LE GRAND H. HARDY, M. D.
THIRTY EAST FORTIETH STREET
NEW YORK

February 8, 1935

Dear Grischa:

As I told you on the telephone the eye condition of Mr. Field is due to chalazia. He has two in the left lid. One in the upper, one in the lower, both of which will probably require surgical treatment. There is an old fibrotic meibomian gland in the upper lid of the right eye which I think should be left alone.

Because there is a slight chance of his being able to evacuate the gland himself by means of massage I have offered him this opportunity, and if, as is ninety per cent likely, this fails to succeed I shall extirpate the chalazia in two weeks.

With my thanks for your kindness in letting me see Mr. Field,

Yours,

Doctor Gregory Zilboorg
14 East 75th Street
New York City

November 18, 1953.

Mr. Marshall Field,
Field, Glore & Company,
38 Wall Street,
New York City.

My dear Mr. Field:

I have waited for some time before sending you a report on
the condition of Mr. Frank Hitchcock, hoping that this report
when it finally reached you could be fairly definite in its pre-
dictions and recommendations. Unfortunately, however, the very
nature of Mr. Hitchcock's condition makes it impossible to take
a final stand without a fairly long period of observation.

There are many peculiar and quite unusual elements in this
situation. Among them is the fact that our main hold on Mr.
Hitchcock is through the young lady with whom he is in love, Miss
Grammer. There can be no doubt that in his relationship to her he
has more nearly returned to the personality which characterized him
before his accident than in any other recent relationship of which
I know. My first recommendation therefore has been that we work
through and with Miss Grammer rather than against her. My im-
pression is that she is honest, and not gold-digging, and that
she will cooperate with us if given a chance. This cooperation
consists in holding him rigidly to study and to hard work, in
keeping him away from alcohol, and in stimulating his ambition
to get ahead in his work with you. In all of these things she
is helping us, as far as I can make out, quite whole-heartedly.

It is not possible to predict, however, just how effective
our pressure will be, even with her good-will and help, because, by
the very nature of his condition, a certain child-like instability
of purpose is likely to persist for a long time, and even more
because for some time it will not be possible to say whether or
not his intellectual machinery of thinking and remembering is
entirely normal. The subtle effects upon the brain of such a
blow as he sustained sometimes manifest themselves in a fine dis-
integration of the powers of memory and reasoning. A clever patient
can mask this condition in such a way that only the most exacting
tasks bring the difficulty into the foreground. I have purposely
refrained from testing Mr. Hitchcock too minutely in my office,
because I am quite sure that if any very sharp defects showed up
he would become alarmed and would stay away. It is better, there-
fore, to let the facts become clear in his work under Mr. Hall's

HENRY RAWLE GEYELIN, M.D.

103 EAST 78TH STREET
NEWYORK

August 11th, 1933.

Dr. Gregory Zilboorg,
28 West 54th St.,
New York, N. Y.

Dear Dr. Zilboorg:

Following is my somewhat delayed and brief summary of
my findings in the case of Mr. Marshall Field.

First as regards his history. There is nothing in the
immediate past which would suggest any organic disease other than a vague
history of having had a heavy feeling with dizzy spells when he woke up
in the morning 5 to 6 months ago plus the fact that he was told by a
Dr. Wolfe that his eyes were yellow. The patient himself specifically
denies any yellowness of his conjunctivae or skin. In his past history
there is, of course, the story of his rheumatism with which you are
familiar. This was apparently completely relieved by tonsillectomy.
During the period between his attacks of rheumatism he suffered from
headaches which, from his description, were apparently of the true
migraine type. I neglected to say that 4 to 5 months ago he gives a
history of having had catarrh of his throat.

The physical examination is entirely negative except for
the following positive findings: - posterior pharynx red and somewhat
granular with slight mucopurulent discharge running down the right nasal
pharynx. There is slight enlargement of the bear to the left 11-1/2 cm.
in the 5th interspace. Heart sounds are distant and the first sound is
impure, particularly over the mitral and aortic areas but I was unable to
detect any murmur. Abdomen is not distended but there is considerable
gas and a tympanitic note on percussion over the lower abdomen. On deep
inspiration the liver can be palpated 2 cm. below the costal margin but
it is not tender or nodular. There is, however, slight deep tenderness
over the general region of the gall bladder and as I told you in our
conversation, I get the vague sensation of a small mass on the left upper
quadrant over which mass there is some tenderness on deep pressure. This
mass is so vague and so indistinct in outline that I doubt its actual
presence and do not attach any significance to it. The pupils react
sluggishly to light and accommodation, but equally. Blood pressure is
120/70.

Following are my laboratory findings which, you will see,
are entirely normal except for very slight leucocytosis that may well be
due to mild chronic sinusitis as indicated by the mucopurulent discharge
in the pharynx.

August 2nd, 1933.

Urine

office specimen

reaction - acid

color - slight cloudy straw

specific gravity - 1.024