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JOYCE, James. Autograph letter signed ("James Joyce") to Wilhelm Herz (William H. Hartley), Zurich, 30 August 1937. 1.2/3 pages, 4to, in blue ink on both sides of a pictorial letterhead of the Carlton Elite Hotel, a tiny fold hole, with the envelope addressed by Joyce.
SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR HIS DAUGHTER LIKE THAT FOR NIJINSKY
"...There is something which I am very curious to find out. Have you a doctor in St Gallen or anybody else who knows the doctors (Binswamer etc) in the Kreuzlingen Sanatorium...where the famous Russian dancer Nijinsky has been for the past 18 years. He was supposed to be an absolutely hopeless case of dementia praecox and yet according to sensational reports a week ago in the press he is now miraculously cured as a result of insulin treatment. My reason for being curious is that only a fortnight ago it was proposed to me in Paris to submit Lucia [his daughter] to this identical treatment. There is no doubt about it that she is better as a result of glandular treatment during the past 18 months and I shall hesitate to have recourse to any more drastic method. Still since I am here on the spot I should very much like to know if this cure is authentic. If it is I believe it will or ought to revolutionise the treatment of mental-moral maladies which are also clearly physical..." Printed in Letters, ed. R. Ellmann, vol. 3, pp. 405-6
SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR HIS DAUGHTER LIKE THAT FOR NIJINSKY
"...There is something which I am very curious to find out. Have you a doctor in St Gallen or anybody else who knows the doctors (Binswamer etc) in the Kreuzlingen Sanatorium...where the famous Russian dancer Nijinsky has been for the past 18 years. He was supposed to be an absolutely hopeless case of dementia praecox and yet according to sensational reports a week ago in the press he is now miraculously cured as a result of insulin treatment. My reason for being curious is that only a fortnight ago it was proposed to me in Paris to submit Lucia [his daughter] to this identical treatment. There is no doubt about it that she is better as a result of glandular treatment during the past 18 months and I shall hesitate to have recourse to any more drastic method. Still since I am here on the spot I should very much like to know if this cure is authentic. If it is I believe it will or ought to revolutionise the treatment of mental-moral maladies which are also clearly physical..." Printed in Letters, ed. R. Ellmann, vol. 3, pp. 405-6