A Letter Written on Mar 6, 1912

The Department of Comparative Physiology in
The Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

March 6
1912

My dear Miss Turner:

Your letter has lain unanswered through illness and trouble that have seemed to make anything but a brief business note very formidable. But I must not put off the business side any longer. You will see that a correct but cautious statement of our results was printed in the Proceedings vol XXIX, p. XXXI (I think). It was just at that time I spent a week mostly in bed (nothing serious) and during this lapse the sending of a proof to my colleague was lamentably forgotten. I hope you will forgive this baleful denseness.

Will you not now publish a paper in your own name describing what we found? If you are willing to do this, I will send up the notes you left here. Such a paper should be a help and a pleasure to you.

I have so many things to tell you. But I am too tired just now. I must have written thirty letters to day. These plaints hare only by way of letting you know how narrowly you escape several pages.

Is the clock all right?

Yours faithfully
W. T. Porter