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May 15, 1929

Wednesday Night

My dear Sweetheart,

The time for the written is getting close and I’ll be glad when it is over. I am anxious to get through and leave here. The review conferences add to the length of the day and it makes a long one. This PM the other candidates drove out to the bay to go in swimming. I excused myself and made the call to the Gas Co. office. Did not shake hands with all of them, but made my little spiel to Miss McCann and left a 3# box of chocolates (Martha Wash.) She was pleased etc. and when you come up with me she wants us to come to her home. They will write you of my call etc.

May 15, 1929

May 15, 1929

Had supper downtown and to break the Baltimore monotony I went to a movie-talkie (Mother’s Boy). It was very good. Did some window shopping and then came to my room.

This morning it really looked as though the sun would shine. It came out like a real sun. Wore the heavy black suit. We had a good shower of rain.

On account of the exam Friday, I’ll probably wait until Friday night before writing again. You should get it Monday. I expect to leave here next Tuesday night just after the oral exam. Can’t tell how long it will take in Wash. but you can bet that I’ll get through as quickly as possible. I’ll try and get through over there on the following Friday or Saturday. I have an idea that I won’t care to make any stops on the return trip. I am getting anxious to see my Sweetheart. It seems like ages since I left you.

With all my love,

Your
Walter.

Thurs. noon.

Bish phoned this AM. Says the Territory of Alaska has ten thousand for the study of bots in reindeer. He says that I am the best man in sight & he wants me to think it over. Headquarters would be in Nome. The work would consist of this summer & next, should start in June. Will see him at Helm. Soc. Sat. night. Will go over Sat. AM & talk about it. Don’t mention it to anyone except Claudelle. Write me in Wash. and tell me what you think. Hadwen the Canadian parasitologist was up there for about two summers, but evidently he did not give them what they wanted. Would you like to go up there for about three months this summer and next? Don’t know whether we would sail from Frisco or from a point in Oregon. The reindeer are tame and the bots affect them like our cattle grubs do in the U.S. I have an idea the same control methods would be OK. It should be an interesting and profitable trip. They should pay more money than I am now getting, and be liberal for expenses etc. It should help for an increase in the Bureau. It appeals to me.

Walter.

May 14, 1929

Sch. Hyg. Tuesday PM

My dear Sweetheart,

Was mighty glad to get your letter yesterday AM and another this AM. Hope everything continues to go well with you. Am cramming for the written. It comes Friday. The oral comes next Tuesday, one week from today at 4 PM (3 PM Dallas time). We came to the Sch. of Hyg. last night and held a session. Several questions were discussed but I am not so sure that it is the right method of study. I hope the discussions will be few and far apart. Have been at the School every since I returned [sic]. Everyone is very cordial etc. Am learning all that I can and am collecting some reprints to bring home.

May 14, 1929

May 14, 1929

It was nice of Jimmie to come over and offer to do something. Let him, if you need ice or if you need any errands run. Have not seen the Cort family yet. Cort says that he doesn’t want a radio yet. Dorothy wants jazz and he doesn’t. They are buying a Desoto car this summer.

With love,

Walter.

May 12, 1929

Baltimore Sunday Night 7:15 PM

My dear Sweetheart,

I am now at 1617 N Broadway but do not send any letters here. It would be better to receive them at 615 N. Wolfe.

Had a nice time and a lovely dinner with the Bishopps and this PM they brought me to Baltimore. Pork roast, creamed potatoes, asparagus, spinach dressed with boiled eggs shredded, biscuits, caramel layer cake and ice cream with strong coffee. We ate about 3 PM, so I am not hungry tonight. Mrs. Spencer seems to enjoy her visit with them. All were disappointed in that you did not come with me. Mrs. Bishopp says that she is greatly indebted to you for recommending College Park. She finds the people very congenial. She intended to give a party for you so you could meet some of the people.

May 12, 1929

May 12, 1929

It is a lovely home located in a V, having a front of about 400 ft. on the Balto. highway. At the tip of the V an iron fence is covered with Rambler roses. The house is a 2-1/2 story brick, surrounded by natural trees. The woods were cleared for the house and lots of trees were left for shade. The children behave very well. Bitsie is much better looking, more grown up and more dignified. She will be a Junior next year. I met the young man who goes with her. He is interested in entomology. I imagine he will be in our division when he completes his work. Probably about the time that we go to S.C. He seems to be thick with the Bishopps. I notice that he kissed Mrs. Spencer when he came in.

Bish wants Jimmie to go to Southern California in August and spend the whole winter and spring out there. He says that it is too hot during the summer. Do not mention it to Jimmie yet. I want to tell him more. Also, I want to be sure that they pass him. Bish felt that his paper (exam) would pass but he does not grade it. I think it is about an average. About one-half of that group will fail. The theses are not considered unless the exam is OK. Jimmie’s thesis would help if he makes a 65 on the exam.

Have some sad news. Mrs. Robb passed away on July 3d. She died in the hospital. About three days before she was paralyzed and could barely speak. Mr. Dick carried her to the hospital. She left her business in poor shape. So the lady at 1014 tells me. Mrs. Robb had purchased another house and had moved furniture over there. It seems that both places were in debt at the time of her death. 1014 will be sold to the highest bidder on May 21st. I shall make it a point to see Mr. Dick and talk with him. He will probably be at the sale. When you and I were here Mr. Dick was named as the executor of her will. If you remember I witnessed it for her.

I did not go to the School tonight, since it was too late. I’ll get two meals each day, two doors above here. Think I’ll be here until the 21st. May go to Wash. that night. I’ll wire you that night just after the oral exam. I have no doubt but that I’ll get through OK. It is a question of making a creditable showing before the Advisory Committee. Dr. White says I’ll have a nice visit with them and that I’ll enjoy it. Have visited with Dr. White practically all of the time since I went to Wash.

Dr. White did not read my thesis but I showed him the photos and the evidence. He seems to think it is OK. It represents more real work than any Hopkins thesis he knows of, and he thinks that I’ll get the degree all right.

With all my love, your,
Walter.

May 11, 1929

Saturday Nite 9:15 PM.

My dear Sweetheart,

Another day and evening with Dr. White. Have spent most of my time with him. Have found it very interesting and I have gained some useful information for the goat problem. The dinner for Cobb which was scheduled for tonight did not materialize. Dr. Hall was seriously ill and it was cancelled on that account.

May 11, 1929

May 11, 1929

This noon Dr. White and I had dinner with Bish, Webb and Peters. Tonight Dr. White and I ate at the Allies Inn again. Tomorrow noon I’ll go home with Bishopp for dinner and they will take me to Balto. in the PM.

Talked to Dr. Roark on the phone this PM. He called Bish’s office and inquired if I had arrived. I will phone him when I return from Baltimore, about a week from next Wednesday. He and Mrs. Roark were disappointed when they learned that you did not come with me.

I had the privilege of reading Jimmie’s exam paper this afternoon. Bish has to read all of them and pass on them, but does not enter the grades. I think Jimmie will need some help and possibly Bish can help some. There are eight papers in the section on Physiology and Insecticides. One of them, a man now working here, is up for an appointment as soon as the papers are graded. I compared his paper with Jimmie’s, although Jimmie’s is not presented well, his facts are given. It is difficult to find them. In fact I had to point out to Bish just what he was driving at in some of his discussions. Bish has about 50 exam papers for Junior to be read & reported. Naturally the ones with the facts in brief form will be given most consideration. When I return from Baltimore I’ll learn what the others have to report. If Jimmie’s passes I’ll be pleased. Dr. White agrees with me re: Jimmie’s going to Baylor for work, in preference to another year with Dr. Geiser.

When I talked of Mr. Abbott Dr. White suggested that the boy was probably affected with defective internal secretion glands. The pineal gland at the base of the brain, an internal secretion gland, probably does not function properly. Dr. White suggests that A may be a burden to his folks as long as he lives. Also that the boy is to be pitied for this abnormality. The trouble probably started during embryonic development.

With all my love, I am,

Your
Walter.

May 10, 1929

Walter is now at Johns Hopkins University to defend his doctoral thesis, in which he worked out the etiology of creeping eruption (aka cutaneous larva migrans).

Wash DC – Friday Nite.

My dear Sweetheart,

Yesterday PM I posted a letter from Baltimore. It was written en route and a few notes were made on the envelope after I had visited with the Hopkins folks. I presume you received it Sunday AM by Special Delivery.

May 10, 1929

May 10, 1929

At the School of Hygiene I found everyone very cordial and with a glad hand. The thesis paved the way in a fine manner. Had lunch with the Med Zoo folks in the cafeteria at Dr. Cort’s expense. Learned that Dr. Root is to quiz me on protozoology in the oral. Dr. Ford (head of the Dept of Bacteriology) will give me the oral in the other minor. Dr. Ford is on my thesis committee, and I think Root is also. I did not learn the names of other members of the Committee. According to recent rules the candidate is not supposed to know who serves on his thesis committee. This gives the Comm. a chance to refuse a thesis without the candidate’s knowing who was responsible.

Had a talk with Miss Durham since I did not care to deposit $50. It will not be necessary to make the deposit. She said that my thesis was a “beautiful piece of work” that Dr. Ford gave a very good report on. He read it about three times, turned it in for binding, then the next day he asked to see it again. A copy was in his possession when I saw Miss Durham. She said he remarked of the beautiful work and etc. The praise gives me more confidence, but I am not allowing it to go to my head or to cause me to throw out my chest. Cort seems to be very proud of the showing of his Dept. He has all of the candidates this time, Root & Hegner have none this year. Hegner is en route to the Philippines. He will be there for a year.

Everyone asks of Mrs. Dove. Cort surmised that we would drive up and everyone seems disappointed that you did not come.

You will recall that Dr. Barlow worked out the life cycle of an intestinal fluke, and that he swallowed the flukes en route from China. He was at JHU about nine years ago. This year he returned in order to complete the work for his DSc degree. He expects to go to Egypt to work on a bladder fluke of man. It is likely that Mr. & Mrs. Scott will go with him. Scottee is the same as ever. Says the right thing at the right time. Next week I expect to become better acquainted with Barlow. I am to obtain a room at the same place, about 1600 block on Broadway. Will take two meals there, also. Will write more of JHU next week.

(Mr.) Dr. Radcliffe and Miss Capp were married about a year ago.

Dr. & Mrs. Huff have a boy baby. Dr. & Mrs. Anderwort have a girl. Both couples and both babies are in Boston. Dr. Simon died more than a year ago.

Saw Dr. White last night, today and tonight. Will see him again tomorrow. I did not arrive at the Bureau until after 5 PM but I made connections with him at Wallis Cafe. Tonight we ate at Allies Inn until they closed up. Then we drove about in his Buick roadster. He has a special horn on his car. It sounds like a bull calf. We had lunch this noon at the Chinese restaurant.

Mrs. Bishopp (steno) was disappointed that you did not come. It is such a beautiful time of the year, and you would have enjoyed it so.

The Bishopps invited me to eat dinner with them Sunday at noon. They are going to take me to Baltimore that PM. He is OK to me, very nice etc. Otherwise, he is running true to form. Dr. White and Mrs. B know more of him now.

Think I’ll stay in Baltimore all of next week and until after the final oral on Tuesday of week after next. It will be better for me and also less expensive. I am now rooming 1 block north of the office, just opposite the old Smithsonian Bldg. Don’t know their names. I pay $2 per night for three nights here.

The new Animal Parasitology by Hegner, Root and Augustine is out. It has C.E. in it and all other recent developments.

Dr. Howell was very cordial when I met him in Baltimore.

With all my love, Dear, I am

Your
Walter.

P.S. I have a new point in my pen. It cost $1.50.

May 9, 1929

Thurs. A.M.

My Dear Ina,

Have had breakfast. Will stop in Baltimore before going to Washington. Due there 9:05 AM but we are about 1 hr late. Trip has been fine except that you were not along. Meals have been very good. Raining at St. Louis, cool here.

May 9, 1929

May 9, 1929

Since we go through Balto., I’ll stop, see how the cucumbers hang, and if advisable to remain there I’ll phone B at his home about supper time. It may be best to get the written before going to Wash. Have been studying quite a bit en route. Smoking car has not been (hic) crowded and it is OK for study.

We witnessed an accident in Indiana yesterday PM. This train hit a Studebaker sedan at a crossing and killed a man and wife almost instantly, wife breathed about 5 min. We were there for three hours, hence our delay.

Tell Claudelle we passed Riley’s “Old Swimmin Hole” yesterday. It’s on a crick and looks like any other nice old swimming hole. The poem is given on the menu. A photo also.

With love to both of you and with promise of another letter after I see Cort[?], I am

Your Old Man

Notes on inner envelope:

Next Friday – Written.
May 21 – 4PM – Oral.
To Wash. this PM & return Sunday. Helm. Soc. meeting Sat. Nite honor Dr. Cobb 70th birthday.

I believe these were exams for Walter’s PhD at Johns Hopkins University.

October 13, 1928

The Mackay System – Postal Telegraph – Commercial Cables

ROXIE MISS 13

W E DOVE

CARE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY DALLAS TEX

PAPA DIED LAST NIGHT WIRE ME HAMBURG WHEN EXPECT TO ARRIVE WAITING FOR YOU

REVA DOVE.

October 13, 1928

October 13, 1928

Obituary

T.W. Dove Dies Suddenly

T.W. Dove, aged 61, substantial resident of Franklin county for more than forty years, died of an illness of the heart, at his home near Hamburg, Mississippi at 3:00 A.M., October 13, 1928. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. T.W. Dove and three children, Revah Dove of Hamburg, Mrs. W.M. Prince of Philadelphia, Miss., Walter E. Dove of Dallas, Texas, two brothers and two sisters, E.B. Dove of Roxie, Miss. and Rev. J.C. Dove of Baskin. La., Mrs. W.M. Womack of Quentin, Miss. and Mrs. J.M. Gill of Little Springs Miss. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Eugene Farr and Rev. W.A. Green, at Hamburg Baptist church and the remains entered at Williams cemetery, Hamburg.

September 28, 1928

Box 208,
Dallas, Texas,
Sept. 28, 1928.

Mrs. Lilly May Adams,
Mart, Texas.

My dear Mrs. Adams:

I am in receipt of your kind letter, and also the letter from Lorraine. The fountain pen was received, and I wish to thank you for returning it.

September 28, 1928

September 28, 1928

I regret that we were unable to stop at Mart and visit with you. Since we shall probably go to Uvalde quite often it is likely that at some other time we can have this privilege and pleasure.

A list was made of Frank’s books, and I carried this to the book store of the Southern Methodist University. From the list about 8 or 9 books were checked by the dealer, which indicated that such books were in use in the University at the present time. A large number of Frank’s books are not used by students at the present time, due to revisions in editions, but all of them are nice reference books. I carried the books to Dr. Geiser’s laboratory, and we discussed the matter. In the talk with him I learned that he would be pleased to have the books donated to the library of the university. Some of them could be donated to the library of the Department of Zoology, and others to the general library. If you cared to give the books to them I am sure that they would serve a most useful purpose. It is the custom of libraries to indicate by sicker or otherwise that the books were donated, and by whom, and I believe that this would be an appropriate way to render service to students in the University and to remind them of a character who exemplified a good student.

If you care to give the books to the University I would appreciate it if you would communicate such information to Dr. Geiser.

Yesterday I sent to you by express a box containing Kodak pictures and such other personal effects which Frank left at our laboratory. I trust that these will reach you promptly and in good condition.

Before I left Uvalde a pair of Frank’s glasses were shown to Mr. L.B. Russell, the man in whose home Frank was rooming. Mr. Russell indicated that he would like to buy the glasses. I am writing him today, and will ask him to communicate with you, giving the price he is willing to pay for them. Should you want them returned he will be glad to send them to you.

With kindest personal regards to yourself and other members of the family, I am

Sincerely,

W.E. Dove,
Assoc. Entomologist.

August 26, 1928

Box 509, Uvalde, Texas,
August 26, 1928.

Mrs. Lily May Adams,
Mart, Texas,

My dear Mrs. Adams,

I am in receipt of your kind letters regarding my personal expense in the affairs of Frank’s. There is no charge for anything that I have looked after for you.

August 26, 1928

August 26, 1928

At the time I made out Frank’s expense account I was under the impression that I could pay the expense for his meals and lodging and for laundry from August 1st to the 4th inclusive, and that I could turn in the receipts on my expense account. I have learned that this cannot be entered on my expenses. Therefore, I have made out his account on another blank and I have added the items to it. You will find the account enclosed herewith, and you will note that it calls for $80.93. The account which you mailed to Dr. F.C. Bishopp, Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D.C. was in the amount of $73.43. The difference of $7.50 is accounted for by the enclosed receipts. If you will swear to the account just as you did on the other copy, and mail it to Dr. Bishopp with the enclosed receipts it will be substituted for the account which you have already sent. Within about three weeks you should receive a check for the new amount.

I have no charges to make except the check which I replaced with mine, and for the $7.50 for which I have added to the new account. If my memory is correct the check was $16.21 and the $7.50 would make a total of $23.71. If you care to send me a check for this amount, my address will be Camp Wood, Texas, care of General Delivery, during next week.

The expense of the undertaker here can rest until Mr. Parman has instructions from the government. He will write you when he has heard from the claim. I understand that he is attending to Mr. Littlepate’s charge also. I hope that the charges can be paid for by the government.

When I return to Dallas I shall make a list of Frank’s books which he left at our laboratory. If you care to sell them, I believe that they can be disposed of at S.M.U. I shall talk to you about them when I return the car. It will be about the 15th of September.

With kindest personal regards, I am

Sincerely,

Walter E. Dove.