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nice one and I have talked so much to her about you 

 that she feels she knows you as well as myself. 



A professor in Brazil writes me: — 



I was awfully pleased to receive your letter of June 

 17th and want to thank you very much for your kind 

 attention in giving me the information I liked to have 

 on the Loew Collection. By reading your letter I see 

 now that I had not failed in my judgment, when I 

 understood that I had conquered a good friend, after 

 your always remembered visit to the Oswald Cruz 

 Institute. 



And but a month ago Dr. Afranio do Amaral writes: — 



Dear Tom: 



I was delighted beyond expression to find on my 

 desk the other day Mary B.'s book, entitled No Li?nits 

 but the Sky and telling about her and Teddy's travels 

 in the Andes. Please thank her for this splendid sur- 

 prise and most appreciated souvenir. 



How would you like to write Portuguese with that 

 style? 



I could go on forever extolling the charms of friends 

 from Cuba and Haiti, from San Domingo to Patagonia. 

 They have meant a great deal to me. I have entered into 

 their joys and sorrows and they into mine, and I salute 

 them, one and all. 



My old friend Dr. Herbert Clark, formerly on the 

 Medical Staff of the United Fruit Company, now the 



