Document 3J90JKY8eBJdmYEvEEe2v48Ra

,3,1927* JBSr*vGeorge Guest, ,Children* a -Hospital, 300 Longv/ood Ave , . i Boston, Hass. JJy dear Georget . I was oertainly delighted to receive your letter a few days ago and to hear /something of yavu?self. end your work*.- I can.'think of nothing that I would like better'tKan to have you makC.us a visit and to talk with you longer about the things in which we are both interested. One of the pleasantest times that I can remember in the last year was my visit with you, l-icffidw and Freiberg, and the lon^ talk that we had* ; .; l^ihave not the slightest doubt about the value of the work whlciiyou are doing chid ' wii;!^ do# and11 have been expecting at any time to hear of very Important results com- ing out of your laboratory. So much of one's work is done around the edges of important thing, and it Is only rarely, of course, , that the important thin :itselfcomes through* I have boon continuing the work Which I dis cussed with you the last time we were together, and we are con tinuing to find some Interesting things and some things which X ;; think are of considerable importance. So far the relations of . our experimental work have been directed toward lead poisoning _i , only, but there are a number of side issues of this which it seems "to me are likely to; develop into things of much move importanas than the original problem*';- It is- a^ very,, long^vetory to discuss . where our theorizing has taken us, [.'So' far the most important ~ thing wo have determined,; {and thic has been done for rabbits only) has been; to show us that the distribution of lead obeys some very definite^law ^ e<jdilibriOk* ;and that it. is apparently combined in some fashion with the proteins^ There 'Is of course, a consider able amount of evidence- of selective ..absorption^ and my principle interest at the moment is to try to determine upon what factors, or factor, .thla^sclcctive^absorption Is due, : I think that this is a rathorid3^^g0||^^hd it will be; soasi time: before- we have very.. much data from^wCaj-to-drntr conclusions, . f - In so far as our persons! selves ere concerned,? both bucille and I have been having a rather quiet, uneventful life* She has been ill a time or two, and I am at presentbetiajittstnirbed by something which I think la a chronic appendlclts, whica^f am ex pecting to have out in a short time, Onfhe whole, hovrevor, we have been very well and very much pleased with li#e* Iucille ha taken ; i 'Dr* G*'\9uesfcf February 3,19B7* a course of/treatment from wherry with vaccines and has accom plished more in a few months In the way of relief of her symptom than she has hitherto. done In two years* In fact, I holleve that she Is In better health now than she has been any time since we have been married, and X believe that she will recover completely* I have not read the book of Sherman Anderson* but I shall look for It* JX have been reading a number of things* however* Among these are, Burton RusseH*a* "Educatian in the Good life", Durant*a* "Story of Philosophy", Browne*s,"What tjfen Believe", and a few other things of somewhat lighter type , Wuohtto my dis gust X have had very little time for reading, but X expect during the semester which begins February 15th to moke a great deal more headway in this matter* During the next several months X expect to be out of town very little, if any, and to confine myself pretty strictly to academic and experimental work* I certainly hope that you will have aajoppor* tunity some time soon to make us a visit, and when you do epoe please plan to stay several days* so that we can have an opportunity to talk over the m^ny things that 'we -are.actually