get along on less ... I am "bugs" just now in the hope of IS 

 getting married next Christmas and cannot think things out 

 clearly. 



Ten days later, after registering impatience because of no 

 word from me, he continued: "Marie agrees with me that the 

 amount of money at stake, apart from enough to pay for rent 

 and for shredded wheat biscuit, should cut little figure in 

 deciding where we are to be next year." By October, the au- 

 thorities of Anaconda were in competition with those of Oak- 

 land and Wherry wrote: "they would like to fix up a scheme 

 for keeping me here to run the lab for diagnosis and board of 

 health work but are not sure they can raise the money I asked — 

 $3000 per. The Oakland school gives me a definite offer 

 of $125 *a year.' I accept — trusting that it means $125 a 

 month." 



While this letter was on the way he sent a second (October 

 4, 1906): 



Since I have decided to cast my lot with Oakland I can 

 hardly wait for the time to pass — though I will not presume 

 to say that what is going to happen next month does not influ- 

 ence my feelings. Isn't it a rotten system that puts 30 and 

 sometimes as many as 3 1 days in a month? . . . She is at the 

 Women's and Children's Hosp at Syracuse until Dec 1st and 

 says: "To feel like a green fool and yet to have to act the 

 grand physician is not easy! ..." 



Other epistles out of this period told of his continuous labors 

 for the suit of the Amalgamated copper company. Septem- 

 ber 26, 1906, he wrote: "I spent all day fixing up museum 

 specimens and fairly reek Kaiserling 3. We have a fine col- 

 lection; and they are well put up and arranged, if I do say 

 it myself. Dr Smith and Dr Moore will be dying to take them 

 back East with them." Whereafter he added: "I must work 

 harder than ever to prove that I don't shirk in the anticipa- 

 tion of leaving." Marie had written him that the Anaconda 

 group would no doubt be sad to see him go. He answered: 



No, no one is sorry unless it be some of the people I had the 

 privilege of helping in a medical way. I think Mrs Gunnis 

 and Mrs McCallum will be sorry for they can't get away 



