Kodaikanal, So. India,
Sept. 23, 1930.Dear Miss Turner,
Thank you very much for your postcard from Norway. I am eager to hear about Copenhagen, where you are living & what work you are doing.
Herewith a typescript of my first very own paper!! [Margin note: "I told you didn't I, that Dr. Redfield encouraged me to publish on my own."] I am so thrilled to have done one that I want to talk about it to everyone! I am going to read it, with lantern slides of the figures, at the 8th Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine in Bangkok, Siam, in December. I did awfully want to get your criticism before I sent the paper but the notices came to me very late & then I had a perfect orgy of mathematics to get the thing done in time. Papers have to be in the hands of the Secretary who is in Java by Oct. 10th & it takes nearly three weeks by post from Madras.
I should be awfully grateful for your comments as soon as you can find time. I shall be starting for Bangkok not later than Nov 25th and to have heard from you before I give the paper would be a great comfort. [Margin note: "Meetings Dec. 7 to 13"] There wasn't a single physiologist whom I knew of here who would be of any help whom I could show it and there was only the one mathematician in whom I am staking everything. I feel fearful that there may be some radical error that we were too inexperienced to detect.
I wish you could see the big chart. The curve is so very different from yours in its slope but the points are beautifully distributed around it. I am crazy to collect a lot more data to see if it really does fit. But the metabolism - I have done awfully little on that this term. Three successful sleep experiments with the helmet have shown a drop of about 5% during sleep. I need several more to be convincing. Total nitrogens are being collected slowly and falling in the same range I wrote you of. I shall see Rosedale of Singapore at Bangkok & visit him in Singapore & have a good talk about the protein in the diet & can perhaps do diet effects on metabolism. This term which will be cut very short by Bangkok, I must get the sleep ones. Circulation is not being touched - & I am sad.
I'm spending this holiday here with one of my Indian colleagues and four botany students who are thrilled with the flora & everything about the hills. The new term begins Oct. 2nd. Miss Stokey is in the Nilgiri Hills.
Much love to you, Miss Turner. What wouldn't I give to connect with you now!