611 W. Elm St.
Urbana, Ill.
Jan. 28, 1918.Dear Aunt Abby,
Please excuse pencil as I am feeding "Bung." E. said there is a letter at the lab. from you which he forgot to bring home, suppose it is your story of the fire.
E. has started the slides, & insured them for $25.00. I have a bunch of reprints for you ready to start when I can find out the postage. I put in the copy I had of Dr. Clapp's toadfish dissertation and also L.B.W.'s spider paper. I will send you any others that are my own to dispose of if you care for them. E. has a "mens" & I presume he would be willing to part with the zoölogical ones if I wanted them. The two nervous system charts we will also send. E. uses them in his classes. - For the girls coming from hous[e]hold science less than for neurology of course. The girls ink in the motor tracts with red. They have just a bit of neurology - chiefly "the spinal ganglion cell & its processes"[.] Sometime he plans a manual which will include these charts. If you could make use of them in your class work the photographic department could print them for $.10 a piece. That is what they do them for at present for us.
Edward has the negatives from which he made many of his lantern slides. He says that if you care to have them you are perfectly welcome to use them to make positives from. If you will give me some idea of the things you would like I can pick out and send several dozen to you. He has also negatives of two or three dozen "physiological worthies" from Versalius to Pasteur. (The domestic girls could bind the slides, perhaps) I presume you have drawn curves and such things on lantern slide covers, with india ink to use as slides. I have made a good many things of that kind, digestion schema, colored ink drawings of the ear & retina, etc. They are a bit crude but they answer the purpose very well. We have a B & L lantern that runs with a nitrogen filled electric bulb which is fine for a small lecture room. The light is so strong the room does not have to be darkened any to speak of to show the slides & one can have plenty of air. I meant to say that lantern slides complete cost at present $.55 or $.60. If you can do the printing from the negatives, & the binding yourself or "inter department" I should think they ought not to cost more than 1/3 that. Let me know if you care for these negatives & I will get them started as soon as possible.
The weather is atrocious.
Lovingly
Emma