21 Central Terrace,
Auburndale, Massachusetts.My dear Miss Turner;
This is the third of September and you are in Germany according to your itinerary. You must have had a wonderful time seeing new sights and having new experiences. I have had a good summer in my clinical experience. The month of July I was at Massachusetts General Hospital and in August I was at Philadelphia. Now I am with Miss Helen Calder at Auburndale. My niece is here also. She has some books to finish before she goes to the Shipley School- a preparatory school for Bryn Mawr College. She passed her examinations in French, History, Mathematics and failed in Chemistry and Comprehensive English. This extra year will give her a better foundation. She is young and I am going to let her take her time. She was in camp at Andover while I was doing my clinical work. She had a good time at camp and made herself a good camper. She won some awards and she has now her badges on her sweater. She is very proud of them. This is her adolescent period and she enjoys being showy. I hope that she will study hard as she plays.
I enjoyed of knowing Miss Holt and her home was very comfortable. It was most delightful in evenings to be cool and comfortable. We had some very hot days in July. Mrs. Kelly contributed much to my comfort. She was so good to me. Miss Holt also took me out for many rides. I am certainly grateful for your introduction to her. Then I also had a chance to visit Ruth at Poughkeepsie. She has a good laboratory to work at Vassar. I read her thesis and I was glad to know her findings. We always take frogs for experiments and draw similar conclusions upon other animals. Her experiments on lymphatics give us new conceptions. By the way before I forget I must give you my message from her father. Dr. Conklin. He asked to be remembered to you. My professor- Dr. Warthin's son is also teaching at Vassar. He is an assistant professor in Geology. He is very young to attain his professorship. All his four children are bright.
From Poughkeepsie I went to Philadelphia. I was with Dr. Case Blechschmidt. She and her husband are both doctors. Hhe [sic] is a Pediatrician and she a surgeon. He teaches at Jefferson Medical School and she is the cheif [sic] surgeon at the Woman's Hospital. I had chance to see many of their private and hospital cases. The Women's Medical College is in her new million dollar building. The Woman's Hospital is building her new million dollar hospital at West Philadelphia. I was told that someday this hospital will be a teaching hospital for graduate work in Obstetrics and Gynecology. My freind [sic] Dr. Case is at head of the surgical department. I have already made arrangement for one of my coworkers to be her assistant in the new hospital. My plan for the present is to have a trained staff. We are also going to have our new building when we have a better staff. I feel that we are making progress altho. slow. After all education is a slow process.
If everything goes well I shall sail for home by way of New York City October the 9th. According to my itinerary I would be at Copenhagen November the first. I am so glad that I would have a chance to see you again. I want to see one or two hospitals at Copenhagen. I want also visit a clinic in gynecology. On this tour I shall give time to Gynecology. The three branches we are practicing_are Obstetrics[,] Gynecology, and Pediatrics. I feel that I had a very good foundation in Obstetrics for all these years of actual work, a year of study and work in Pediatrics this past year, thus I feel the need of seeing more operative work in Gynecology- especially techenique [sic] that stands the test of times. At Philadelphia I did observe many operations. At other European cities I shall try to get into clinics.
Just now I am having a quiet time at Miss Calder's. She has a good library which I am enjoying. Just now I am reading Robert Burns. Outside reading I am helping my niece to get her things ready for school. She does not know how to take care of her clothes well.
By the way I shall see Madeleine Wayne tomowrrow. [sic] She is going to drive to Auburndale and take us to Lexington. In a drive with Miss Holt we called upon your cousin. She was out.
I close this letter with much love to you.
Yours lovingly,
M. I. Ting.September 3rd, 1930.