Sherborn, Mass.
Jan. 2, 1920.Lady dear,
Your letters of Dec. 20th & 31st reached me today. I am sending this to So. Hadley to greet your return. I don't know where you are just now but I do know that I love you very much, & I'd like to put my arms around your neck this minute & tell you so. It is a great disappointment not to have you drop in on us next week. I've looked forward to seeing you from the 5th to the 9th. Are you not coming at all, or postponing it till midyears? We don't have them in Balt. you know. I live right across the street from Lillian. That might be an inducement. You call alone of course. Sorry we have to disagree on this vital point. It is unfortunate if one's virtues sit with the candle under the bushel especially if one belongs to a profession where civility and affability are commercial assets. I still maintain that such women as she hurt the course of women in medicine more more than they help it.
The epidemic is a thing of the past at Hopkins.
Rumor has it that Margaret Tyler is engaged to Fatty Hanis, our Res. in OG. Hast heard anything of it? She is to be at N. Haven another year it seems.
I return to Balt. Sunday night as I have a lecture for the nurses at 4 P.M. Monday which I have not prepared. I began the series this year with an hour's talk on normal human beings. It was well received. I get by with quite a bit of stuff because nobody can be sure whether I'm serious or a joke, & while they are guessing I'm gone. Jan. 14th I begin a course of 11 lectures to the Army nurses who are training the the [sic] Women's Hosp. I feel very strongly on the subject of nurses' training. They ought to have less brass polishing & more theoretical work. Now they work for not with the Dr.
My regards to your mother.
Your loving
EstherDo you remember Adelaide Hays who assisted in Chem. a year or so ago? She had a breakdown & was a pt. of ours this fall. What do you know of the enclosed. [whatever was enclosed is no longer in the envelope]