DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL
   BALTIMORE. MARYLAND.

March 28, 1924.

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My dear Mrs. Denison,

Has Mary told you all the excitement about my

new plans-   I am really very happy over the decision to go to New

York.  It show3 me that Dr. Flexner is really in earnest in thinking

that we have opened the subject of blood up to the experimental

attack.  I think that we have too;  at least we know what to do and

for the present how to go about it-   I shall be very anxious to

t+ke Dr. Cunningham also because we work 30 well together*  The

prob&&n about him is that he is really ready for an independent

posttion so it may not be possible to get him enough of an assurance

in New York in case anything happened to Dr. Flexner or to me- He
really cares more about the research than he does about teaohing. His

abilities are in research and in organization-   For myself I have

become so interested in this problem that the teaching is harder

than it used to be. At any rate I am glad to turn it over to younger

hands-   The position in New York is for me a permanent one with

a pension for life adequate to live on when I reti,re'  Of course

it puts off retiring for some time, at any rate for ten years if

my vim lasts.

It is real exoiting about Carlita's car-  1 hope that she

will enjoy hers as much as I do mine.  I ohanged my Christmas

present from you to two silver spoons.  I shall go on to oomplete

my dozen through Miss Ireland.  She has the nicest little shop

for oriental things-  I fall from eoon&ny every once in a while

when she has something especially nice.

Mrs- Hoffmann has put her house up for sale.  She has bought

a little piece of land in the country and is going to build when

she can sell her house.  I do not think that it will be soon0 In
the-block north of us there have been about Ttwelve houses for

rent or sale all wintc

3r. I should prefer not to move for the


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DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY                   f&Lb/ bJ

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL
   BALTIMORE. MARYLAND.

one year, but it won't make a great deal of difference.  I shall

hope to stay where I am until summer and then leave my things in

stoaagg, while I am away and find something in the Fall.  I shall

look for a little appartment in Roland Park out by the Hookers.

The Scientific Meetings are in Buffalo April 16 to 19. I

shall have to go as I am to take part in a Symposium on blood.

The nineth of April I am to give a talk on the same subject before

the Yale Medical Club.   I shall be sure to see the Harkness

Memorial Building this time*  I am looking forward to the visit

in New Haven.   Solpe time in April I have to go to Washington to

the meeting of the Association of University Women'  I am not

much interested but have been made delegate from the University*

When I get to New York I shall hope t- join the Eomen's Univeristy

Club.   I think that the difficulty about the general association

is that there isn't enough of an interest to hold them all together.

Miss Thomaa ought to put some life in to the organization however.

Her major interest now is International good will and the League

of Nations-   I think that &I
                               s   is really keeiag her hands off the

College entirely and thatMiss Park is succeeding very well.
One of the men iq) the Labora&y is a great gardener, a

Dr. Langworthy and we have bought a lot of seeds together and

are going to plant the Hooker .hill with flowers, me are to start in

on Sunday.  Some mornings we expect to go out early, that is

Sundays, have a picnic breakfast on the hill and work'.

Affectionately,
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