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4pri.l 15, 1924.

  DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL

   BALTIMORE. MARYLAND.

     Dear Mrs* Denison,

               I enjoyed your letter a lot*  Let me hasten to

     say that I do not have such a gloomy idea of vacations*  My appoint-

     ment begins July 1, but that is a way of giving a person an

     allowance for mov&n@Y@ecause $y salary runs from September to

     September here.   I think that there are no stated times for

     vacations there but that they have them depending o&the work and

'hat I can arragge my own and I shall surely take them summers

just as I have here.

I really think that it is the wise thing to do, that I

can now make my best contribution by following this problem that

our work here has opened up.  Dr. Flexner says that less progress

has been made with the anaemias and the leukemias th-n with any
other branch and I am very keen to see what I can do.  I shall

miss the students hut othersin- in the department will start them

off and I should not have stayed here very many years more at any

rate because ones vitality ~'I)D teaching certainly decreases o

as one gets older because its very hard work carrying other people

along.  As I sit here nom there art? three of the students working
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in my room and the total group on hand is S&X, quite a large group.
Three of them were really started by Dr. Cunningham but we have

taken them all over into the work on blood* Tie shall have to

see this group thru before we leave.

    In regard to special people who might be available for
a grant, I know of two possibilities* Two years ago, Dr. Howell
had a man in Physiology whom he considered very superior but he
left to work for the $eneral Blectric Bompang;r, h&s special training
having been in Physics'  I thin!:: that he was from Denver originally.

He became disatisfied with that work and is now in the Department


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JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL

   BALTIMORE. MARYLAND.

of Physiology at Harvard working to get further training to take

a chair in Physiology*

  k:          He is now on a grant from the National

Researc Council.   I will find out more about him from Dr. Howell.

He has recommended him already for a ch?ir so he is nearly raady

for a position.

    The other per:: on is one of my research students, a Dre Traut,

who is no'.- taking an intorneship in surgery here.  Dr. Trant has

lots of ability for research.  This year I@. Bfitrick of the

Rockerfeller Board came down here with a cancer of the face and

after it had been treated with radium one of our men did a very

remarkable pdece of skin grafting.   They realized that we do

not know much abou-t skin grafting, Dr. Halsted often talked to

me about it so they began looking for a man with enough training
to attack it and have spoken to Traut about working on it next year.
As yet thev have no grant for it but I imagine that I&= BFtrick
intends to put it before the Rockerfeller Board.  4s you see

both people have possible funds.  All that I know about the

matter of the skin grafts is that the grant has not yet been made.
I will keep the thing in mind and let you know of anything

especialy  that comes up.
    To-night I am going to Buffalo for the Anatomical meetings,

shall return Sunday morning and then get to work in earnest
finishing up the work we have outlined for the year and helping

with the pepers.  Dr. Cunningham is wonderful about writing the
first draft of our stuff and then we all get busy polishing it

up* I have written one paper, Doan is writ!z&,and Dr. C. all

rest, some four or five falling to his share*  I think that
Dr. Flexner was pleased with our progress and we are going to
send two of our papers to him for his journal.

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  DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL

   BALTIMORE. MARYLAND.

  I worry a little bit for fear that I may not be able to

kepp my beloved Susan B, in other words my 5'rnaklin in New York.
Its expensive keeping a car there and hard driving.   I mean
to try to keep it for getting out into the country on Sundays
but I surely will not be able to use it as much as here-  How
glad I am to have had the pleasure here and have had the chance

to get used to driving here-  They go at a pace of 20 miles an
hour in the down town district there and here about 12.   I asked
o, taxi driver about it when I psseed thru New York the other day

and he said that one soon got used to the greater speed and that
every one kept his breaks in awfully good shape in flew York.

With much love,