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  • Walter E. Dandy Letter 02/13/1913

    7 Great Percy Street

    Kings Cross Road

    London, England

    February 13, 1913

    My Dear Son,

    …Very glad to hear you are well and enjoying your work so much. Would like to hear more about it and how Dr. Heuer is enjoying brain work. Do you think he will stay with it. Did any of the other doctors know you stopped the bleeding in that brain case. There are so many questions if I was near I would like to ask but if I ask you will forget about them when you write.

    Do you ever hear from Cushing. I think it would be a good thing to be on the look out for a position for fear there is no vacancy in Hopkins. Do you like all the doctors you assist. What did the doctor say when he could not stop the bleeding. He must have felt bad to see you were able to do it.…

    We went out to Hyde Park the other day and coming along Piccadilly Street House, it is a very swell street. We saw so many swell or swell dressed girls. One in particular had a very rich costume, black silk or satin and she had a slit in the dress reached to her knee. Every step she took bared her leg to about her knees. A very thin stocking covered her leg. We could not see any underskirt of any kind. Pa could not see any either. He was taking the whole thing in and he says it was the worst he ever saw and the most disgraceful, but the women are getting pretty tough all over these old countries. Not like they used to be.

    The lady where we are staying is very fond of pets, cats rabbits, chickens. One of her rabbits died and she cried and somebody sent her 4 little mice. She thinks they are lovely things. She keeps them in a box in her back room. They make me creep to look at them.… Great deal of striking going on. Cab men have been out for some time and there is talk of the bakers coming out.…

    Your loving Mother

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