Jan. 13, 1924.

  DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY
lDHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL
  BALTIMORE. MARYLAND.

Dear Mrs. Deni6on,

          I feel ashamed that you will arrive home and find

no letter from me to thank you for your Christmas gift.  I think

that you will like what I bought, for it was'an instrument that

we needed for our work.  I was a very large sryinge that we wanted

for our blood transfusions.  We hati small ones and didnot like

to ask the larger one because the laboratory funds are low and

the large one makes ib easier to get to blood out without

olptting.  The work is going beautifully.  I think that the

three of us working together, Dr. Cunningham, Dr. Doan and I
are really getting something of fundamental importanoe in blood.
It makes me a little restierSL now about teaching and makes me
feel as if I should give up the teaohing before long and go into

researoh altogether.  I want to get Dr. Cunningham settled in
a plaoe first and then I think that I shall ask Dr. Flexner to let
me wDnk at the Rockerfeller Inetitute for a term of years. I

think that he would take me in.    Then a new researoh
student of mine has just got a nice thing on the lymphatios of
the reproductive system &hat I think will be of real uee.  The

only thing that makes me hesitate about giving up the research is
the enjoyment I get out of my research students@
    I didnbt follow Mary's example of accessories to the
oar because a Franklin doesn't need many.  I did get a wind
shield wiper and chainsbut that is all.  Some day I may get
a parkigg light.  My, I do love my car.
  I hopw that the tea caome safely.  Let me know when you want
more or if you want Borne sent to your eister.


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  DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL
   BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

I had a hope that Henry and Carla would take in Baltimore

on their trip South but I suppose that they had very little
time for so long 8: trip.

How did you find Jean and the children.  It was nioe to
         Judge

see them and to meet UP. Cary last summer.
     Affectionately and gratefully,