THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE
FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

66TH STREET AND AVENUE A
      NEW YORK

March 31, 1924.

Dear Dr. Sabin:

        I have your very gratifying letter of March 24 and
I will present it, together with an outline of the plans we have
discussed together, at the meeting of the Board of Scientific Di-
rectors of the Rockefeller Institute which comes on April 26 (not
the 19th as I thought).  I shall be able to write you immediately
after that meeting, telling you how the plans are received by our
Board.  I feel that there is an excellent chance of getting for-
ward with the diseases of the blood-forming organs.

        I am pleased also with the possibility of Dr. Cun-
ningham being interested in the plans to the extent that he would
consider becoming part of the working group in Rew York.

        From what you have told me, I do not feel that Dr.
Doan is so essential.  If he craves clinical work imediately, I
should hardly feel like persuading him to defer. But you under-
stand this situation far better than I do. I cannot but believe,
howerer, that you and Dr. Cunningham would soon train tither
young man with clinical interests to help as Dr. Doan is now do-
ing.  If Dr. Doan would like to talk over plans with me (possibly
also with Dr. Cole) after the Board meeting to which I referred,
I should be happy to talk with him.  I may be coming to Baltimore
within a week or two, and could talk with him then.

        .I need not say that I should feel it a great thing
to have you at the Rockefeller Institute.

With warm regards,

Yours sincerely,

P.S.  Thank you very much for
   the photograph of the draw-
   ing of Dr. Mall.

Dr. Florence R. Sabin,
Dept. of Anatomy, Johns
Hopkins Medical School,
Baltimore, h4d.