War Department, Surgeon General’s Office,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington, Feb. 4, 1902.
My dear Gorgas:
Yours of January 31st is just to hand. The Army Examining Board of which I am a member is not now in session, but undoubtedly will be set at work just as soon as the school session ends, April 3d, and I should venture the opinion that the Board will remain in session until November 1st, except during a brief summer vacation in July and August. I hope that your friend will appear. Give him a note to me, or a general recommendation for the use of the Board, and I will see if I can’t soften the hearts of some of the stoniest-hearted members.... I hear that you are going to have a y. f. “picnic” down in Havana this month. Talk “right from the shoulder” to those South Americans, and make them begin the work of exterminating the disease in their respective countries. I think that Mexico is alright on this question.
Faithfully yours,
Reed.
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War Department, Surgeon General’s Office,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington, Feb. 12, 1902.
My dear Gorgas:
Just a line to say that I have your kind letter of Feb. 6th, containing the information that I so much wanted. I thank you very much for it. I am trying very hard to put together an article for the Journal of Hygiene, as I wrote you, but between the class and other work, it’s deuced hard to accomplish a half hour’s work on it daily. Did you see Souchon’s reply to Carroll and myself in the Record for January 8th?... If I can get a little time, after awhile, I may reply to him.... This should reach you in the midst of the meeting of the Congress. Do, pray, persuade them to accept the mosquito transmission and change their sanitation accordingly. I trust to you, Havard, Kean and Guiteras to do this. Make my kind regards to Mrs. Gorgas. I am so glad that you are going to remain in Havana for awhile. You should stay during the whole summer and fall....
Good-bye.