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Nat.Museum,Wash.D.C. 11 March 1948. Dear Doris: You remember I told you how Dolores was coming over to the Museum to see if she could find anything out about skates? Well, when I asked her last night if she came, she bubbled all over with the event. She had come over and met the young man that I had talked with, and he had been so nice to her and she had stayed the whole afternoon talking with him and she hadn't thought about anyone else for a week. She was utterly enarmoured, and then she laughed at herself. She said she was enjoying her 2nd year in Zoology, but I wondered how much the recent incident had to do with it! I came back to-day and never before realized I had so many interested people -- they deluged me with sympathy over my mother whom they all supposed dead. I gave bunches of forsythia about the place, and Mrs. Willis gave me a hot plate that had been turned in, so I don't have to go running all over the museum to boil up my specimens. She agreed to take Dr. Bequaert for a lodger at $2 a night if he wants to stay with her while he is down, and Chapin said he could get him in at the Univ. Club at 2.50 probably. I must write to him as soon as I get my ms ready to send, and let him choose, but Mrs. Willis I fear would be disappointed if he chose the Club. Still that is handier. Everyone here has been having the grippe too. Barber is still bronchical from it -- if that could describe his inside-out-turning cough. He had raked up some more Myochrous for me, absence always endears me to him for a short time. Pity it didn't last longer. Chapin cut out all about the Old Colony Railroad from the Herald that I brought down for them. He says he is going to write a history of N.E. railroads after he retires. Chapin has more things he is going to do after he retires -- none entomological, though. I haven't seen Julia yet, she is over at the Survey this morning, but it was she that got everyone so stirred up over me, as she had been trying to telephone me. I am going to send that Dr. Chittenden-old Schwarz article off to the Atlantic which is running a Personal I contest. I have no real hope of getting it published, but am going to try anyhow. Did I tell you how I let Barber read it? He said he got up in the middle of the night to re-read it, and he wished it could be published. He wanted me to let Buchanan read it, so I did, and then he wanted to take it to Muesebeck, but I drew the line there. I sent it up to the Scientific Monthly and the editor called me up and had an interview with me there saying how interesting it was to him and to the others that he had shown it to, but it wasn't the sort of thing they took. I wish I could get something for it. But I never have for any of my stuff. Well, so long, take good care of your basic healthy self, - 3 meals daily, plenty of sleep and good out-door exercise as much as you can. Love, Mother.
