April 7, 1939 
Dear Dr. Scbmitt: 
That was certainly most interesting news about Hancock's 
marriage! Mr. Bryant was interested. I was talking to True the other 
day and he asked what I had heard from you, so I told him about it. 
He said, "These rich boys certainly have it nice, they can get anything 
they want." I said, "Yes, they can get the woman they want because they 
have enough money to pay for any divorces that may be necessary." True 
said, "While we poor folks ..." I said, "Yes, you have to wait for 
nature to take its course." He howled over that. 
I am enclosing a copy of a letter that just came from 
Hummelinck. I don't suppose srou can collecfr anything for him, because 
the other stuff would go to the Hancock Foundation. Maybe he just 
wants to discuss the matter with you. 
I'm glad you had an opport\inity to meet the Deveneau family. 
Didn't you like her? I think she is an exceptionally nice person. I 
feel so sorry for her. They were an unusually devoted couple. Mrs. 
Schmitt told me yesterday that you wrote her that Mrs. Deveneau hopes 
to run a boarding house in some college town. She probably con make 
a go of it, but what a lot of hard work! I think she is very courteous, 
but I suppose she has to be. 
I think I neglected to tell you that Mrs. Weirich's husband 
died about two weeks or so ago. Dorothy Chamberlain told me about it. 
It seems he was sent up to New York on business and contracted peneumonia 
while there. They phoned for her to come up because he was in the hospi- 
tal, and shortly after she arrived he died. He had some other complica- 
tion with the pneumonia (a weak heart, I believe) and Dorothy said that 
when he came down'*:|5^^the pneumonia he just didn't have a chance. It 
is too bad. I feel sorry for Mrs. Weirich, since her first marriage 
was not a success. Dorothy said she had been very happy with Weirich. 
Jane is not going to North Carolina. Poor girl, she is having 
a streak of bad luck and I feel very sorry for her. A couple of days 
ago she came to me in the/middle of the afternoon and asked to get off. 
Said bhe had been running a temperature for two days and had a pain in 
her right side, and the doctor thou^t she had better come up for a 
leucocyte (bount to see if she has appendicitis. Yesterday morning she 
phoned in that she couldn't come in because Edwin had been badly hurt 
in an explosion and she was going to spend the day at the hospital 
with him because her mother had been there all night and haA to go home 
to get some rest. 
This morning I asked her about Edwin. That crazy yap ought 
to be caned I He and some other boys have from time to time gotten 
dry ice and shaken it up in a bottle with a little water to make them- 
