7000 feet above sea level. ... I am glad of this trip to the QQ 

 hills, for the walks and mountain air have made me feel like 

 a different being. 



]une 7 , 1905 , Landour Hills: I wish you had been here to help 

 us two days ago. A coolie who was quarrying down in the 

 khud had a large rock fall on him producing a compound, 

 comminuted fracture of the lower third of the left thigh. 

 Miss Dr Mitchell, who has charge of Woodstock, Nellie and 

 I had to do what we could for him. Nellie gave the chloro- 

 form while we put on the plaster splint. Miss Mitchell 

 worked for some years in the clinics at Rush. I felt quite 

 relieved that someone who knew something about surgery was 

 within reach. As far as we can judge at present, our patient 

 is doing well. — One can find plenty of medical work to do in 

 India. Since coming up here I have had two cases of infec- 

 tion of the feet with lymphangitis to treat, and, in spite of my 

 training, both cases recovered. 



The dust storms here are frightful. I have not been able 

 to see Dehra Doon Valley for the past three days. The clouds 

 of dust blow across the foothills, cover the floor and blow up 

 here into the first range of the Himalayas. Oh, India is a 

 delightful country! The dust is so thick that I cannot see 

 St George's College across the khud — about two miles as the 

 crow flies. 



A few days later found him started for the United States. 

 Stopping in Bombay as he had planned, he wrote (June 21, 

 1905): 



I spent a day with an old college chum of mine, Reverend A B 

 Allison, at Itawa which is not far from Agra. It was as hot 

 as blazes. At Allahabad it reached 114 in the shade but we 

 managed to have a good time talking over days at W and J. 

 The punkah, cold baths and iced lemonade helped out won- 

 derfully. Lucky for me, it rained that night after one of 

 those dust storms which add to the charm of life in India; and 

 so the trip to Bombay was not as uncomfortable as it might 

 have been. On Sunday night Allison went to Agra with me 

 and we visited the wonderful Taj Mahal by moonlight and 

 again next morning. One never grows tired of it. This 

 morning I drove six miles to Parel where the Government 



