Your kindness was certainly appreciated in giving me more 1 QQ 

 credit than I deserve in that article on pemphigus; and will 

 never be forgotten. ... I have been leading a fairly moral 

 life since you left (don't misconstrue that sentence). You 

 remember last New Year's Eve. I do, with horror. Since then 

 7 have been good. ... I wish you would call on my sister 

 and make black seem white in regard to me. . . . Have made 

 several examinations of that little Jap girl's blood for filariasis 

 but have been unable to find any parasites . . . Joaquin and 

 William send best regards. Joaquin's face was a pleasure to 

 see when I told him of your message to him. 



To further gossip about the non-scientific goings-on in 

 Manila he added the wish that Wherry help him get into a 

 medical school. It was after this letter that the pemphigus 

 article had come from the press with Clegg designated its 

 senior author. This incident, so chronically characteristic of 

 Wherry, and so obvious a reason for the enduring affection 

 that all his laboratory associates bore him, brought this re- 

 sponse (July 12, 1906) from Clegg, now resigned from 

 the Manila laboratory and on his way to study medicine in 

 Tulane: 



I was greatly surprised to see my name before yours on the 

 reprint but I have taken precaution to inform all I know 

 that Dr Wherry was the "man behind" ... It would be 

 absurd to make an excuse to you for my long silence. How- 

 ever, you understand our condition (physical) over here, so 

 enough said. ... I am still at the Civil hospital, and, by the 

 way, I have a case on hand that is indeed interesting. Do you 

 remember a tall, blonde nurse? I am her beau at present and 

 a little loco. Dr Wherry, love in the tropics is awful ... I 

 have made several other examinations of blood from your 

 little Jap at all hours of the night and day with negative 

 results. 



The exhibition of such humanness would, like nothing else, 

 bring color to Wherry's cheeks and elicit his never-to-be- 

 forgotten smile. At this time, too, he was permitted to read 

 more austere medical opinion of him. Victor G Heiser (then 

 thirty-three, chief U S quarantine officer of the Philippines 

 and the newly appointed director of health) declared of 



