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I certainly have a lot of enthusiasm for this new outburst or your ability and this new evidence of your devotion to the fundamental problems of Eugenics. I have gone over your Family Betterment script with a great deal of interest and have already put it in the mails to be returned to you. I enclosed a couple of pages with some notes on the first two sections; I did not feel competent to comment intelligently on the third and fourth without giving the matter a great deal more thought than was possible under the circumstances.
I shall be immensely anxious to attend the March fifth meeting and hear this whole thing discussed, and if Mrs. Perkins continues to get better at the present rate I shall be able to make it so far as my home responsibilities are concerned. Whether I can wangle the expense money out of the University on any pretext is something that will have to be decided later. But you can rest assured that everything I can accomplish to get to New York will be done.
I have just made a contact with a group of thirty investigators in the medical profession and have joined their correspondence association. These are men in very high standing in a great variety of professions of medicine and they are scattered all over the country. A doctor of Barre, Vermont is the organizer and secretary; they contribute the latest results of experimentation in their fields by writing frequent letters to the secretary, these results being assembled, edited, and distributed as a circular letter every week. I am amazed to find a group of busy doctors so interested in progress as to devote this much time to such an enterprise.
These doctors are all working in the direction of preclinical medicine rather than therapy. I have been in touch with the group for some time and am as much impressed by the opportunity that this contact offers to learn a great deal about modern concepts in the medical profession and perhaps to sow a few seeds in this apparently fertile soil. They have asked me to join because they realize the need of bringing into their preclinical picture the hereditary factors that they have had to omit because of lack of familiarity, and I certainly hope that I shall be privileged to do something to further the progress of Eugenics.
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