I am sorry not to have seen you for I need your advice, but perhaps you can give it to me by letter.

We have been wondering if a study of people who have been recommended for Brandon but who have not been able to be admitted would not fit in well with the Study of the Handicapped under the Human Factors Committee of the Rural Survey, and have wondered if this Survey might not do well to make such a study.

We know of one woman who was rather urgently recommended for Brandon several years ago, could not be admitted, and who is now married, raising a family, and apparently living as a fairly useful member of society. This case has made us feel that such a study might prove interesting. We do not know what it would prove, but the fact that more people than you can accommodate are recommended for the State School, and the suggestion given by this one case that possibly an adjustment to society may have been made in some cases, made us wonder if you might not like to have some of these prospects followed up.

I wish you would tell me exactly how this strikes you. I am particularly anxious to do something which will be of use to those engaged in welfare work in the state ‐‐ I do not know who is better able to suggest tasks to an organization which is trying to work for the good of the state as is the Rural Survey than the people who have for a long while been doing the sort of work we are interested in helping if we can.

Of course you have already been making suggestions and working on the Human Factors Committee in general, but I, at least, have not heard any suggestions of yours as to the work of the Eugenics Survey.

I took the liberty of copying, while I was at the School, names of girls on the waiting list, thinking that if you were interested in the plan I would have so much done, and if you approve would like to bring Miss Rome down with me some day soon so that we may copy the records of the boys, and of the old names which, I understood from your secretary, you have more or less had to give up. In some ways, I should think the people on this old list would be more interesting to us than the more recent names because a longer interval has elapsed since they were first recommended and there would be more opportunity to judge how they can adjust outside of the School.

This may sound to you as if I were calmly saying, “Please give us a program." I do not mean to impose upon your good nature or to ask too much of your time, but I would like to know what you think of the above proposal and if there is not something we might do which you have thought in the course of your work you would like to have done.