My dear Gorgas:
I received your reprints and was very much pleased with them and to know that you are doing such good missionary work. Modification of quarantine will come slowly but surely. Am delighted to know that you will be here on your way from Saratoga....
So you have really applied stegomyia again to y. f.? Dear me! Haven’t you had experience enough? If you are going to do this thing much more, Carroll and I will join you on your way back to Havana. There are several problems to be worked out, from a scientific point of view.... Are you not a delegate to the Assoc. of Military Surgeons? I though that you were. If you should arrive before May 28th, you could join us in the dinner to Gen. and Mrs. Sternberg. Wish so much that you could be here with Mrs. Gorgas, as I know that you would both enjoy the occasion....
Sincerely yours,
Reed.
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War Department, Surgeon General’s Office,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington, July 21, 1902.
My dear Gorgas:
It was like the good fellow that you are to sit down and write me that nice letter of congratulation. Harvard did indeed do me very great honor in conferring the degree of Master of Arts, and the audience was so very enthusiastic that I felt that Boston, at least, had some appreciation of what the Army had done in Cuba.... The University of Michigan, not to be outdone by Harvard, gave me the following week the degree of L.L.D!...
There is another way in which to look at this matter. Instead of simply being satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real benefit to humanity and worth more than all the high places that could be bestowed by shrewd politicians. Nor you nor I have reason to be ashamed of our work of the past two years, nor would we think of exchanging places with any of the luckier members of the Corps. “Verbum sap.” I am having Mr. Meyers look up Panama and Nicaragua literature. Do you want articles in German and French, or only in English? How shall they be addressed?
With warmest regards to Mrs. Gorgas, ... believe me, always,