DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL
   BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

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June 3, 1934.

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I telegrz.>phed to lTar-7~ lq.st night -nil intended to

v:rite to her this morning, hut fonr that the letter would not arrive

in time*   I did nirte to her immedi:~,tely on receiving her letter

but in my grande rush of work it did not get mailed'    I have not

worked so hard i-n years; we have gotten three long papers done this

spring and the fourth is almost ready for the final typing end to do .
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it I have worked at the laboratory tintil twelve and even one o$clock

for abr..ut six weeks.  That explains s:hy I have not boon more ellergetic

about Ziss Tra%erse*   1 went over and asked about her just after

your letter came and was told that she was all right.   It seems

that she kept having colds this spring and they decided that it was

due to tonsils,  so they have maited until the throat was in a condition

to be operated on.  In her case they think that it ;;'as 8 simple

case of tonsilitis but I will follow the matter up carefully.  The

doctor is away just now but all& the tonsils removed are studBed

carefully with reference to a possible tuberculosis-  There gere

no physical signs of tuberculosis nhatever and there will be a final

report on the sections of the tonsils.   Miss Lawler advised

Xiss Travers to take her entire vacaation at this time but she
herself perferred to take but a week or two weekshand come back
for July atid go west in August.  She went to the country near here

with some friend and was to have come back yesterday be she wrote

that she would take another week*   I will see her when she comes

back and try to pnrsuade her to take her vacatiolj. now if the doctor

thinks it wiser*    I think th2.t she is not quite so happy in her

work as she was at first*   I am told th?t she has come under the

influence of a small group of nurses who are very disgruntled at
the dioipline.  I don't know what the justice of the matter is


DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOt
   BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

but 1 expect that the decipline is pretty rigid'   I kno-:,; that

I.iiss Lawler, nho is at the head,  is a very fairminded women but

it w be that some of her assistants are pretty strict*   Its true

of all hospitals and the head nurses say that with so much very

repsonsible work to be done they just have to be strkot.

  I have received my formal apppintneht as a Member of the Zocker-


feller Institute and have accepted ito  That is their hif$est title

under the director and is the full qquivaleht of the hendship of

any depa.rtWhh in a University*   I m3 very ha,::py over it '  It maand

that I can put every bit that's in me into the problem that interests

re most.  I am exceedingly happy over another thing'   1 hati !elt

pretty badly over not having Dr. Cunnin@~am in New York, he got the

appointment at the new Vanderbuilt University before the IJew York

plz~~ were completed and Dr.  Plexner could notbid against an

Intetitubethe 2ockerfeller Board YWS building up'  Dr. Cunningham

had become so interested in our joint tior1r that he hated to give it

UP*  This spring our war k involved a study of the lesions in tuberculoi

as well as leukemia and I was asked to go to the meeting of the

Socibty of Tuberculosis.  I turned it over to Dr. %ni;ingham and

he did awfully well and the Committee in charge decided to back
him in ebb a study of tuberculosis giv&6.g him a grant of !Y'30f10,Q8-

a year for expenses.  The woklr has really grown out of our joint

work, one point he got and the other I found and vre aan get him

well started in it here next year and I: am exceedingly happy about it.

Please do not say anythinG about this to any of the peeple out there,

for instance not to Dr. Se&all bacause the matter has not-been

formally ratified by the Board ans it is courtesy to let the

Eorrds  mno~mce  7 I1 thc3e 33,tteree   I thought that you would be
especially interesteti and 1 will explain al.1 the scientific


  DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

points involved when 1 see you.

   1 fear that Xary will find our Eastern 'Lreather pretty ba,d*

Washington is an impossible place for the N.E.A. to choose for

a July meek&g*   !7e have had a vary cool and rainy spring but

now its scorching.  I am glad that the heaviest pa&t of my norlr

is done-  Yie have still' one more paper to write and a little more

war2 tc do on it, but it is a paper than can wait until. fall*   The

others couldnot bncu&se there were going to journals th%t come out

one a year and we should have had to wait another r-ihole year if we
hadn't dinished up& now*

Affectionately