sies on plague and cholera, though not your work in tents as S 1 

 morgue ... I have notes on interesting cases here but have 

 lacked the nerve to publish them. So many fool articles, half 

 dressed and rachitic are flooding the journals. ... I wish I 

 were with you ... if only to hear you say "By George, Ole, 

 I'm putting up an awful bluff." 



At the same time his sister transmitted, with a letter out of 

 Chicago, the following signed statement: 



Received April 4th $50.00 from W B Wherry 



Spent life insurance $12.91 Ap 15 



For John's clothes $20.00 



$32.91 

 In Northern Trust Co Bank $ 1 7.09 



The reference to John covered a new financial item that 

 Wherry had assumed — he would see his younger brother (the 

 last of the children) through college. Much inter familial cor- 

 respondence was to debate not the fact but the nature of this 

 collegiate training. The father stood out for the classical in 

 the established "W and J;" the boy himself, for the agricul- 

 tural. For a year the father won; whereafter the son managed 

 his own future in the University of Illinois in Champaign- 

 Urbana. Commenting on the situation in April, the mother 

 had informed Wherry: "John is back in Chicago. He has had 

 enough of mines but seems to have saved a good deal of money, 

 $100, but some of that will have to go to clothes & travel." 



Descriptive of Wherry's own activities was a letter sent 

 Miss Nast on May 11,1903: 



. . . There is a great deal of sickness in the city and the Civil 

 Hospital is overflowing. Our laboratory force has also suffered 

 and I am sorry to say that poor Woolley is in bad shape. I am 

 afraid that he is of too nervous a temperament to stand the 

 tropics well. He had some trouble following an injection of 

 20 cc of plague antitoxine, after which one of those irregular 

 fevers followed. Now he has an inflammation of the shoulder 

 and knee joints. He has lost about twenty pounds and I am 

 afraid that he has, or may develop, tuberculosis. We made 

 him go to the Civil Hospital but he would only stay there 

 three days. We are going to make him get out of this place 



