Kotagiri, Nilgiri Hills, South India,
May 8, 1929.Dear Miss Turner,
There have been two things to thank you for since I wrote - your photo which came by the next mail & the reprint that came last night. The photo is splendid; it couldn't be nicer and I am most awfully glad to have it. Thank you very much.
The reprint I read through at once with great interest. You had suggested all the conclusions to me before and it is nice to see them so satisfactorily confirmed. It is fun, too, to appear in print as a subject! I wish I had your thesis in my hands to hunt up any conclusions you came to as to relationship between metabolism & circulatory reaction. In general it appeared, did it not, that the low metab. folks showed up less well in the other tests? In the case of my very low Indians, I have not had the feeling that the low metab. was indicative of poorer health than the high ones. I am keen to get on with the circ. tests. But a letter from Dr. Benedict from Berlin last night says that he has ordered the nutrition lab to send me a "perfect" helmet to use for my sleep experiments. He says that that question is being asked constantly after his European lectures - whether "the Oriental has a very low basal becuase he can more perfectly relax?" If the helmet has come when I get back I shall probably start on that at once; but I do want the circulatory tests on the same subjects. I suppose I mustn't be in too much of a hurry. I'm crazy to hear your reaction to my last letter suggesting that you come here.
You will see from the heading that my summer plans have been changed. Mrs. Larsen turned out to be so much more nervously exhausted than any of us has suspected (she had typhoid badly this last year & the pull up has been hard & slow) that it seemed clear that I should go away. She can get the quiet & rest that she needs better if they are alone. But it was awfully disappointing, especially missing the opportunity to have Dr. Larsen as a Tamil paudit. Luck was with me & I was able to get a place on these higher hills at once with two English women from Madras, Alice Varley whom D. Eliz. knows, aged about 40 from London, & her young colleague of 23 from Cambridge, very nice & congenial folks. We all like to hike & we're all keen on birds & beasts & flowers; our little 3-roomed house is right out in the jungle where we can jump off to the hills at any moment, beautiful, beautiful hills & an infinite number of trails in all directions to be explored. My sense of direction is as bad as ever & I daren't trust myself alone very far from home!
I've not yet written to Miss Stokey, nor to D. Eliz. for some time. The alumnae quarterly came last night. Please, I would be pleased to see those papers with Dr. Redfield appear in the alumnae publications. It's vanity, but I should like it. Your paper wasn't in the column, either.
Very much love to you. It is nice to think of you being in Woods Hole & near Dr. Clapp. If it seems opportune you might give my kind regards to Dr. Redfield who remains silent. - & love to Miss Wallace if she is there.
Lovingly,
Eleanor.