Jacksonville Fla
Sat. Night.

My Dear Ina,

This is a short letter to answer your nice long one with but I have just gotten the Kodak enlargements and I want to send them tonight. I am having one of the sitting pose framed for yourself and it will follow about the middle of next week. This will make one of each for yourself and one of each for your mother. I am returning the photo she so kindly loaned, though I doubt if she expected me to return it. It was mighty nice of her and I appreciate it very much. The Kodak pictures are so much like yourself, as you are now, that they are just right, and I really don’t care so much for a regular pose picture. I think these are real natural and they are just what I wanted. Sometime when you have a house dress on and can have a Kodak picture made, I would like one. Let it be natural, and I don’t care if it is made on the back steps with a kitchen broom. Have Claudelle make one of you wearing a bungalow apron and before you eat breakfast. If it is made during your vacation I am sure that it will be bright enough outside at that time. (Don’t throw anything at me) I wouldn’t get up early either if I were you.

August 23, 1924

I note with interest about the squirrel hunt, and since I became pretty well acquainted with the Regan Wells squirrels while there I can understand why you didn’t get any. They don’t get up very early. “The early bird gets the worm” but there isn’t any advantage in getting up before the worm does. I had always shot squirrels early in the morning and in the evening, but at Regan Wells the best time is about noon, unless you have a dog. Even then a person won’t have much luck at still hunting. As you drive along the road at noon they cross ahead of you frequently, and at this time I have shot from 3 to 5 in driving only two or three miles. I did this most every day at Regans, and kept the Brundretts pretty well supplied. However, I rather envy someone the opportunity of going hunting with you, and I can readily understand why he couldn’t see a squirrel. Under the same circumstances I probably would not have seen any squirrels either. (This is intended as a compliment).

I am expecting Dr. K-S to return tonight and I’ll probably take up all of his time tomorrow on account of the developments since he left. He wrote to his office nurse that a spirochaete was a pretty small thing for me to find and that had I been in Tennessee and used a little of their “home brew” I probably would have found a much larger thing. But even that would not equal his nightmare at about the time the clinic closed. He chased what we call a “Larva Migrans” under his bed and down the stairway. He said it was about 2-1/2 feet long. (The thing is really microscopic and we’ve called it “larva migrans” because no one knew what it was).

Had a letter from Bishopp today saying that he didn’t recognize the organisms shipped by myself. I couldn’t expect him to for it isn’t what an entomologist would be familiar with. I doubt if the thing has even been described or known to anyone in a scientific way. He had just returned from New York City, where I presume he took the boys. I know the daughter had been there, but it was new to the younger children.

It is now 12 o’clock and it will be Sunday before I start to the hotel.

Sweet dreams,

Always
Walter.