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  • Walter E. Dandy Letter 11/17/1913

    The Johns Hopkins Hospital

    Baltimore, Md.

    November 17, 1913

    Dear Mother and Father,

    Another week gone and Thanksgiving almost here. Am glad you are so well. We have as much to be thankful for as it is possible for human beings to have.

    I am very much perplexed about the picture. The more I see it the more I am impressed with your taste and judgment. And with her strength of character, intelligence and genuine makeup. But it is possible to be too hasty and possible also to be too deliberate and slow. You get a better impression of longer observation before you come back. I will probably write her, so you need not or had better not let her see my letters as you suggest as some of my statements are rather pointed and not exactly complementary but rather queries of the possibilities on the other side. The sister seems very nice but not as nice as she. It seems a very nice family. I am glad to know you have been so energetic in my behalf, even in matrimonial lines. I have never seen anyone who apparently was so entirely satisfactory from a hypercritical standpoint. But all her interests are so far from here, it would be unjust to her to think of any such sacrifices. She would have nothing here to attract her and I am so busy all the time that she could not enjoy life here, away from all her friends, her country and in strange surroundings. But you go to see them before you come back and get a deeper insight.

    Well stocks are way down-$100 in the hole now, but haven't worried a bit. If it all goes, all right. I put it in to take a chance, win or lose, and which ever it is, is all right, it will soon be back. I wish I had some more money. I would sure put it in now at 25. All stocks are so low. They are good investments and it is a good time to buy. I am pretty helpless in that direction now.

    A federated strike on the Southern Pacific has got the managers on their knees. They can't do much with it. Strikes are getting pretty expensive in these stringent times.

    Dr. Bloodgood, Finney, Halsted, are in Chicago. I took 2 of Dr. Bloodgood's classes. Miss Thilman is coming into the hospital and Dr. Finney is going to operate on her. She says she has gall stones, at least her doctor told her so.

    Well I think I am again destitute of news. Tell me more about my girl! It seems strange to think seriously of such things. I almost shudder at the responsibility-a regret that you anticipate breaking single life but at the same time a feeling of its necessity and its pleasures and real happiness. Well look out for me and I am pretty sure I will make no mistake but don't promise too much, and I have to think hard to make a definite statement of such far reaching consequences.

    Your loving son, Walter

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