person I think. I’m more impressed with her every time I see her. 
going to have a young artist on your hands, aren’t you? 
You ’ re 
When ? 7 e were in the kitchen Mrs. Schmitt asked me privately how 
long Mrs. Brooks would be here. I hs,d tried to hint around and find out, 
Y^ithout success, so I didn’t knowr. While we were eating, Mrs. vScbmitt asked 
her outright how long she’d be here. She replied, ’’It will all depend on 
the v^ork and whether I am called home in the msantime,” so Yve didn’t know 
any more than Y;e knevf in ohe beginning. I still thought she Y/ouldn’t be 
liere more than a y^eek. This morning I took her to Dr. Eassler so he could 
get her name put on the pass book. He asked her ho¥\r long she Yirould ’’’e here 
and she hedged again, saying it ?/ould depend on how well she got along with 
her work. He said, month?” She said, ’’Maybe you’d better make it a month, 
I might get through in two Y/eeks, and I might be longer.” Ill III I just 
called Mrs. Schmitt to tell her. She’s about as flabbergasted as I am. She 
said she’d take Mrs. Brooks out there for a few days in order to give me a 
rest if I wanted her to, but I told her to wait a little and vve’ll see how 
it Yvorks Quu. I don’t knovv wliether I can manage to clean up and keep the 
place straight with some one around under foot all the time. She seems to 
be a very pleasant person and isn’t hard to have around, but I readily wrould 
have hesitated a little if I bnd known tliat there might be a month of it. 
I hate to have Mrs. Schmitt saddled Y/ith her, b-^cause sl'ie’s busy enough 
taking the children back and forth to school. I purposely didn’t ^^^11 her 
about^Mrs. Brooks’ cominc^ until I had it all settled, so she would ^think 
she’d have to enter 
earn 
her, 
So novf you knoYi^ all troubles. The most unfortun'^te part of it 
all is tbut Mrs. B. is one of these exuberant people vaio get along on 
three or four hours sleep, but I’m not. I’m already dead for sleep, and 
believe me w^e’re going to bed early tonightl 
Your Penaeus paper appeared in the Prjc. Biol. Soc 
6th. I am sending half a dozen separates to the dock in San 
didndt tliink you’d w'ant them in San Diego. 
for February 
Pedro. I 
A young man named YiTade from 
to take Mr. Yasner’s place upstairs. 
Hari^^ Dorsey’s office has come over 
I haven’t seen him yet. 
Give my regards to Miss McCulloch when you see her. I hope you’ll 
be coming home pretty soon, but I suppose you wall be two w^eeks on the 
w/ay. Miss Ptathbun seems to h8.ve her heart set on your return a-bout the 
end of this month. I have tried gently to disillusion her. For some 
reason she seems unusually anxious for you to come back. I sometimes v/onder 
if she doesn’t want you on the spot because she feels she may go any time. 
I feel soriy for her wrhenever any of the older ones die. The first thing 
she does is look them up in Amer. Men^ of Science to see how old th^ are. 
Dr. Wliite was two or three years younger than she. Dr. Albert Mann died 
last Y/eek^too. He was 81. 
