The University of Minneapolis
The Medical School
MinneapolisDepartment of Physiology
May 25 1918.
Dear Miss Turner -
Your letter has come and I am glad that you are glad! I would like Miss Frehafer's room very much. I will write to her directly but in the meantime will you tell her so that no one else will gobble it up? I have already written to Gertrude Bruyn about a room in Rockefeller but that can be called off and I would like to be in the Faculty house with the rest of you.
It is fine that so many men are willing to lecture. Really this is going to be awfully interesting - isn't it?
Dr. Lyon is now in Galveston making a speech but when he comes back I'll broach the subject of the Dare hemoglobinometer. The instrument itself is not breakable but the little porcelain plate which holds the blood is and these are hard to get. However I think he will be perfectly willing to loan it and I will bring it with me. I can be in South Hadley by the 24th nicely. I haven't decided just when I can leave here yet nor what route I shall take but I'll be on hand at the appointed time.
Cats are rare here too. Dr. Nirchfelder is led to believe that the species is extinct! There is an old yellow cat across the road that I would be glad to furnish!
Oh - one more thing - Do you know when salaries are paid? If the system is anything like that employed in the public health service, there is a great deal of red tape concerned and checks are slow in coming. In which case I want to be prepared for it. I'm still strong in the belief that I can manage with Mrs Moody's keep. I'd rather have 300 - than 250 - and that seems to me a good way to get it.
I'm going to bed now - I'm dead sleepy. Give my love to Dr. Clapp. I'm glad she is looking so well. Dr. Lyon has left the laboratory work for the girls entirely in my hands next week. They are going to have a good dose of digestion. I can understand exactly how R. Van Tuyl passed her physiology here. This is not a dig at Dr. Lyon. He is fine[.] But more of this when I see you. Now goodnight.
Lovingly
Anna