It was dark and Rainy, and it ms just on© of those times when neither one 
saw the other. Miss Carpenter said she looked in all directions and saw no 
oars anywhere when she stepped off the curb. The next thing she knew she 
wok© up in bed in Baergency Hospital. The driver of the ear picked her up 
and took her to the hospital. She has a fractured pelvis, fractured skull, 
and I believe both bones in on© leg are badly fractured. SETS. Willis told 
iae this morning that the bones have not been set just right, and they have 
to give her an anesthetic this morning and operate to correct the trouble* 
Kelly went to- the hospital on the 6th, and was not operated on 
until the 14 th# - lire. Kelly called the day after and said he was resting 
comfortably and would be feleu to see any one. He has to stay in bed for 
three weeks, flat on his back. It- is going to be very hard for any of us 
to get out to see him. II® is at Soldiers Hone. I am going to ask Maloney 
if maybe he can- go out once; .1 am not. going to try. The visiting hours are 
only from 2 to 4 in the afternoon, which means only Saturdays and Sundays 
for us, and I an not going to put in ray week-end that my. Perhaps Maloney 
will do it once, Hightower called up the other day to ask where Kelly is, 
and sfeid lie would try to see him. He hasn’t done it - yet. He osn’-t go 
week days either, because he hasn’t any. leave left, 
• , Mrs. Kelly says the doctor says that Kelly cannot do any heavy work 
■for. a. year. Kelly has the idea that some on© els© sight corn® in part time 
and he would "direct 1 ? (lifll) him* Mr. Shoemaker will talk to you about it 
when you , get back, I think now i s your opportunity to stake a change, -and 
perhaps make It permanent# Maloney heard from, on®, of 'the. laborers that folly 
wants, to .get back on the ..guard fore® when 'he gets back, though he hadn’t 
spoken to any of us about it. On© of the colored laborers, Woodland, has 
been assigned to us for the time being. He seems quit© good. The first 
thing we iiad him do was wash the windows inside and out as far up as he could 
reach. If© didn’t have- him -bring in a ladder and go all the way to the top* 
The improvement is remarkable. Wo all felt awfully exposed to' the public" 
afterward, after hiding behind so much dirt for such a long time. Woodland 
can’t go ahead and fill bottles and do things without instruction the way 
Kelly was supposed to.. He sits in the stack and reads the paper a great deal, 
but at least ''he' " slays there and is always right there when w© call him. : I 
think if we coulTgeS a good, polite colored man,- wo would be better off 
than with a white man. ; 
Hr. Morgan just called me to make sure I knew the lunch was 
called off. lie said ills brother has gone to Annapolis today and he thinks 
they will go to lit. Vernon tomorrow and that Kleanor will go with them# Be 
said he would like me to have lunch with him, and would I have it with him 
alone tomorrow# He said if I felt I needed a chaperone, to bring along any- 
one I oared to, I said, "Thank you very much, I think I will come by myself,” 
I think he was pleased. He is going to call me tomorrow morning to make 
arrangements# We left it up in the air; and the lunch may not materialise 
at all if they happen to change their plan®. 
I had planned to stay in the office tomorrow afternoon to work 
on Bartlett’s explorations article. He sent me soma notes- and negatives 
early in the week. I typed off his notes as is, but, as you know, a lot 
about the guernsy heifer and the state of mother’s health has to be out out* 
