Margaret Conway and Dora's Sister's Wish

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Margaret Conway told Linda Hazard she and Dora would be leaving the next day. Dr. Hazard said no, I'm her guardian. She's been a verified imbecile. So I'm going to be taking care of her for the rest of her life. Margaret Conway drafted a telegram and snuck to a local store to send it. They took a steamboat to Tacoma where they checked into a hotel and did everything they could to help Dora recover.

In 1911, two sisters traveled to Seattle to meet a "doctor" named Linda Hazzard. The sisters didn’t seem very sick, but when they arrived, Dr. Hazzard told them they didn’t have a moment to lose – they needed to begin her treatment right away.

A few months later, one of the sisters wrote a letter to her old governess. “I am wonderfully better in fact,” she said, “getting stronger by leaps.” But her handwriting was messier than usual, and her sentences ran together and overlapped.

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