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favorable report regarding the Weldon family. 

 Mr. Weldon's foot, although much better than 

 before he entered the hospital, has never entirely 

 healed, and he has not been able to do much work 

 yet, only a few days occasionally. One of our local 

 physicians has been working on his foot the past 

 few weeks, and Mr. Weldon thinks it is healing 

 gradually and says he is going to start out next 

 week hunting for a situation as cook, but the out- 

 look seems very "dusky" to me at present. Mrs. 

 Weldon and the children are well, and so far have 

 had enough to eat, and I hope your kind donations 

 will be as much appreciated by them as they are by 



Yours with kindest regards. 



In November I learned from the local doctor 

 that it had become imperative that Mr. Weldon's 

 foot should have surgical treatment immediately. 

 Another operation was necessary, and once more 

 Mr. Weldon came to Boston. His trouble had now 

 assumed a rather alarming aspect, and in order to 

 check its further spread it was necessary to adopt 

 heroic measures and remove the foot. 



Once more the assistance that came from Bruno 

 (indirectly of course) was the means of tiding the 

 family over a difficult period. But after the opera- 

 tion, which was successful to the extent of arrest- 



