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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS—MEDICAL BRANCH
GALVESTON

MARCH 28, 1955
THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
THE SCHOOL OF NURSING
THE TECHNICAL CURRICULA
THE POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM 

THE JOHN SEALY HOSPITAL
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
THE PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL
THE STEWART CONVALESCENT HOME


Sr. E. R. Silliman, Gerente
CMA, Apartado 901
Mexico, D.F.

Dear Gerente Tubby:

We were very happy indeed to get Raquel's letter yesterday morning to be assured that all of you were getting along well as could be expected. We had concluded that no news must be good news. We also had a letter from Pinkey in which she said that Bob had started eating some after your heart to heart talk with him and her talk to him. She had intimated to him that I had ordered tube feeding and I had said furthermore that there was no use in wasting blood in transfusing him if he were not to eat. She also told him that there were no chances of getting him to the ranch if he didn't eat and get some strength. The psychology worked some and she was hopeful in her note from your Ranchito Aguacate in Tampico.

We were also happy to have an explanation for the cause of the DC3 crackup, which we know hit you very hard. I would have been even much harder on you if there had been the result of negligence on the part of your crew and your maintainence workers or a failure of one of your ships. Why a mayor of a city would take four convicts aboard an air liner without having them handcuffed is difficult to understand. The evidence that you uncovered of the mutiny on their part, while the ship was aloft explains the off course crackup. The payor payed with his life, but as Raquel said, "so many good innocent people also died as a result of the mayor's negligence and ignorance."

We were beginning to change our affairs here with the thought in mind that if Bob did not get along better, we might fly down to Tampico on Easter weekend to see what we could do with him. But now that he is progressing satisfactorily, thereis no need for that, and we have shifted back on our routine.

Who's address is this? Calle Lopez 205; Colonia Campbell Tampico Tamps. Is that the address of Ranchito Aguacate or Dixie and Ken Lee's.

Bob Mullen, your friend, must have had about a thousand copies of my "Living Along With Coronary Artery Disease" made and sent to me grattis. He is helping me to spread the gospel of careful living. Somebody in your company, I believe that Pinkey, got Mr. Adams to get for me a battery for my flash light from the Casa Alfredo Shultz establishment and sent up to San Antonio. I have not yet received a bill for it. I don't know who or how much I am to pay for it. Please advise me of it.

Dr. Ignacio Chavez has had my whole curriculum vitae and biographical sketch and bibliography published as a supplement of the journal the Archivox. He has sent to me 600-620 reprint copies and refused to allow my patient Mr. Weinert to pay for them. He insists that this publication is a present from my Mexican friends in honor of my 60th birthday and my 25th anniversary of years as a full Professor. Such are my Mexican Friends.
Sincerely,
George Herrmann
George R. Herrmann, M.D.

GRH:blm