Dear Gorgaret:

            It wae s-:leet of jlou to write 80 soon after I left!
The very next boat after the one I was on had your nice letter
of November 19. You have done wonders in getting the family medical
affaire so far along in one week.  The next letter will roach
me after Uew Year'r dry and will probably toll about Thankrgiving
Day and Victor!8 virit,  and in the due course of evontr I shall
hear about the jolly Chrirtmas and thr now radio from Father, etc.
Plearo keep up the tatream of letterr, for I should bo greatly
dirappointed if one of the fortnightly mail boata rhould slip
in without anything for mo.   I rehould like to hear from the
children too. How are the dancing leason's progressing?

        My New Jersey StendBrd stock ir common, and there

is very little of it, aa it ir only on a par value of $25. I
doubt if the reorganization will have any effect on mo unlese
the compeny givao the holder8 of common stock an opportunity
to buy new rharer at an advantage. The newrpapere end the bank
can tell you.

      Things have been going on quietly and well here. The
harmattan has stopped for a while, and we can no longer look the
sun in the eye when it ir an hour or two above the horizon. The
afternoons and nights are hotter, but entirely bearable. In the
office the electric fan maker it poosible to work in tomfort
almost any time.  My daily program is more hygienic than it bar
been for yearr.  At half past, five I play tennio and keep it up
until'nearly #even, when I take my shower and put on freoh clothes
and moequito bootr and go to dinner.  It io great to have a tennis
court on our own groundr!   It is also pleasant to have a
colored boy with a tray follow you up in the middle of the
morning or afternoon with a glaor of orange juice and water
or lome other beverage of preference. One is alwayr thirsty.

    I have a perronal boy n&mod Harriron and the office boy
ira Wilfred.  Adam ir the chauffeur, and Marrhall the head boy
of the community meam.  I don't know who gave thorn their nameo.
Many of the people heve tribal markings in the form of
parallel scars on their cheekr.  We have 46 nativer working here
at the compound and about nfno more rerving three of the staff
in Ibaden and Accra.  Altogether there ore ten Europeans on the
atrff.  We nrc occupying about ten acrea of land: I cannot nay
just how much aa the beck boundary is not definite. We have rix
major building6 and about seven minor one6,  and the conotruction
of three more ir about to commence next week; we hope.
morning inrrpection ie quite an undertaking.          My Tuaday


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   Dr. Beuer 18 doing some intereating work. He haa modified
Noguchi'a leptoepira medium and has been iro)ating leptoepira
from poole,aewers, tank8,  etc. He filters the water through
Berkefald  filter8 and uses th8 filtrate. He frequently get8 pure
culture8 of rome 8trein of leptorpira,  a8 the bacteria are
held back.  It look8 aa if these methods would soon reveal a
large number of free-living leptorpir& They are large organlear
and it la almost unbelievable that they ehould paes through
the fine filters 80 easily.  People u8cd to expe.-t ultra-
microreopic ~rgenirms under there circumrtanccs. Dr. Beuer 18
very fri8ndly end I feel entirely at home in the laboratory.
The equipment ir excellent.   Aa roan as I have read up the
record8 of the earlier work,  I hope to spend much more time in
the laboratory end o leo~maM3~ inspection6 in the field.

    At noon on Chrirtmas Day we were guertr of Dr. and Mrs.
Connal of the Medical Research Institute, and in the evening
I went to e dinner at the home of Dr. and tire. Gray.   The latter
was a dinner dance- dancing after every course. The noon affair
was very pleasant, but I did not feel entirely at ease   in t?,;c
eveji;lng. si!: ;YOL( ma2 ~lriu.gine. Pirnty of drink, dancing meet of
the tirre, and an embarraseing use of mistletoe, made the
evening somewhat of an ordeal to one of my frugal habit; and
limited accompliehmente. Don't imagine that the affairs are
formal.   Far from it!  One of the favorite forms of humor
at both functions wa.g throwing things ecro88 the table at
anyone who seemed unduly serious. The miesilea were mostly
wed8 of paper from the everprerent paper hats of the snapping
bon-bons, but one wa8 never eurprired if he received a bit of
bread or e\chocolete. There ie no quiet convereation with one'8
neighbor. iOne really cannot make a good imitation of Chriotmea
without children, and only the mieeionariee bring them to
Nigeria.  I don't believe I have seen one white child in
Lagoo rince my arrival.

    I have forgfitten to tell about the "At Home" at
Government Houoe. The invitetion ia enc,loecd.   Aloo the dance +
card,  There was dancing in a rort of pavilion out of doorr,
end, a8 there we8 e huge exce88 of men, there were bridge
table8 in some of the rooms.  I was introduced to the Governor,
Sir Graeme Thomron, and Lady Thomeon.

         I hope that you are all getting along eplendidly,
and that the furnace is behaving like e genleman. Much
love to you 611.