The Johns Hopkins Hospital Feb. 23, 1920.
Dear Miss Turner,
Yours of the 18th just in. Providence intervened in the course of common sense. The Rally is to have Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Vernon Kellog [sic] & Geo. Vincent as speakers. This platform oratory of "I am a woman Dr. I have had a hard fight, but have won out at last" savors [?] too much of my "neighbor" Dr. Welsh.
Speaking of sex hygiene you'll be interested to overhear a conversation. Dr. Kristen Mann came here to ask Dr. M. to take part in a social hygiene campaign for the Y. W. C. A. & he told her that he did not believe in sex hygiene lectures per se; that merely talking on the physiology & pathology of reproduction never detered anybody from following his instincts. The sex instinct, like the appetite for food & drink & amusement deal with the question of individual satisfaction. Moreover to camp [?] out on sex, he believes, whets the appetite rather than curbs it.
You don't say when you are coming. Hurry up!
By the way, my dear friend Margaret Tyler was here last week. Stayed two days with Ruth Fairbanks here at the Clinic. She did not see fit to look me up either by calling for me at the Desk or coming to my office on the floor below her quarters. Such is Christian love!