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8 November 1974

Dear Jack:

I was so glad to get your letter.  Yes, I have heard from the autopsy.  Several weeks ago a friend of mine, Richard Taylor, stopped here at the Museum to see me.  He is an M.D. in Wichita, Kansas.  As a young fellow he used to accompany Sid and me on all our fossil trips.  He was as interested in fossils as Sid and when he went to college he started in to be a paleontologist, but it was at the time of the war and the army got after him and sent him to medical school and he turned out to be an army doctor in Germany first.  After the war he got a job in Wichita and has been there ever since in a hospital there.  When I told him about Doris and how I wanted to know what the autopsy showed but couldn't seem to get any report, he said that he was a pathologist and could get in touch.  A few nights ago he called me long distance to tell me the report, that she had taken a sleeping pill and had had some alcoholic drink, - a lethal combination.  It was precisely what I had figured out myself. He said that he had asked for a regular report to be sent me.

Your pamphlet on the Reservations in Massachusetts interested me, and I think it is a good idea -- but would 11 acres be enough for a park?  I am not at all sure about the shape of the lot either.  In fact I couldn't find the place if my life depended on it.  Years ago my father took me up to the woodland he owned and he showed me around.  It is on the side of the Sharon hills and from where we were we could look down on Stoughton and the surrounding country, really a beautiful view.  I might write to the Trustees of the Reservations, the address is Milton, quite near home, and ask them about it and say I was thinking of willing it to them for a park and ask them to look it up and see if it was fitting.

I am as usual here at the Museum daily, keeping busy and trying to forget my sadness.  I shall look forward to seeing you and showing you the things you have in the attic.  I have been trying to  clear up the attic, and have had Eric Lundberg, a bookseller of natural history books, from W.Va. here/ - he even stayed over night to finish up.  He was two days getting Sid's books and papers, and had to come a second time because his car was completely filled up with them.  He sent me a check for $1200.

I am writing to tell Mr. Oster about the results of the autopsy.

Till we meet again,