David Fears wrote (for the August 3, 1899 entry) of  a letter to Rogers: "I am unspeakably sorry to lose the steam yachting and the Fairhaven visit, and I wasn’t expecting to lose the whole scheme, but the Swedish project made a sudden and radical change in our plans. You see, Jean’s health has made no real and substantial progress in the past 3 years. None whatsoever. We had tried the baths, and the doctors and everything—all no good. What should we do? For one, I was willing to try anything that might turn the tide— except Christian Science.

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I have marked part of this letter “private” because we do not want it known that Jean is ailing. If this treatment should definitely help her we shall continue it in London when we return thither the 28th of Sept. No doctor will ever do her any good; that is perfectly plain. The best in the world have had charge of her for 3 years and haven’t made an inch of progress toward a cure."