Whereafter lightning struck; and Wherry sickened. He went 1 QQ 

 to bed with "grippe;" but at the end of a week was worse than 

 at its start. Two weeks passed, and his old-time friend came 

 down from Chicago. Rosenow said he had pneumonia. Wherry 

 picked at his bedclothes, ran fever and lay thus for six weeks. 

 He had been breathing and handling much tularense. May 

 that have been the miasma that invaded him? Remembering 

 nothing of his sick days, he sought the sun in Florida. Here 

 the father sent to his son thanks that he had not died; adding: 

 "We are very much saddened by the apparently hopeless con- 

 dition of Aunt Fannie. She is however one of the Lord's dear 

 children and He will care for her." 



Wherry sent me a post card from Daytona (March 9, 1914) 

 where James Gamble had insisted that he come to his house: 



This is a beautiful place on the island & right on the Halifax 

 river. The ocean is a few minutes walk across the island. It is 

 pretty cool, S6° F at 12 o'c yesterday and 37° F early this a m. 

 Please write at once and let me know about Helen [the wife 

 of Paul G Woolley who had been acutely ill]. I have been 

 getting stronger every day & can take quite a respectable walk 

 but am very stiff & my pleurae still stick. 



Aunt Fannie's state grew worse. Wherry returned to Cin- 

 cinnati to see her die. April demanded his presence in Chicago. 

 Settled there, he wrote from the department of bacteriology 

 in the university (April 11, 1914) : 



I am o k and enjoying the work here. I have a class of four- 

 teen fairly good students — in fact most of them are the pick 

 of the soph medics. I was able to get out of the tropical courses 

 at Rush. Rosie [Edward C Rosenow] told me I couldn't 

 undertake so much, so I was able to fix it up with McDill and 

 the course has been postponed indefinitely. I went to lunch 

 with Wells [H Gideon] the other day. He is very nice and told 

 me that he had "defended" you in the East many a time. You 

 are so damned bull headed and dogmatic that they don't 

 understand you down on the eastern "sho." I think that 

 Taylor's [AlonzoEngelbert] fears that young Ostwald's visits 

 about the country would do you good are being realized (you 

 are a sly fox for a Dutchman!) . You see, no one knew any- 

 thing about colloid chemistry in this country (excepting A P 



