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    "ocrText": "a\necember 20, 1929.\nDr. Herman Schlundt,\nUniversity of \"issouri,\nColumbia, so.\nDear Dr. Schlundt:\nDr. Flinn sent us a copy of the letter which he\nwrote you in reply to copy of letter which you forwarded us pretaining\nto separate publication of our respective work.\nAs you may realize Dr. Flinn's letter was rather\nupsetting to us, for after all we did not feel that the position he\ntook in a number of instances could be justified from his viewpoint.\nI, therefore, went up to see Dr. Flinn and had a very frank discussion\nwith him regarding the entire situation, stating that I felt that we\nwere probably both working under misapprehensions regarding the activit-\nies of the other, and that we would be better off if we could come to\na more frank understanding relative to our relations and future associa-\ntions.\nI found Dr. Flinn in a very receptive mood to discuss\nthis problem, and went OVer in detail the matters discussed invhis\nletter to you. Unfortunately Dr. Flinn talks somewhat differently\nthan he writes, for I may state with reference to the first peragraph of\nhis letter, where he considers me strictly as an outside chemist, that\nhe felt my position was anything but that.\nThe paragraph where he\ndiscusses our position relative to his attitude on men such as Bailey,\nhe apparently misinterpreted my statement with reference to the Curtis\ncase. In this matter the position that I took exception to was not\nhis coming out against the internal administration of radium, but did\nfeel that he overstepped the bounds of propriety when he made reference\nto the Curtis case.\nReferring to the third paragraph in Dr. Flinn's letter:\nI think we entiroly clarified that situation, by giving him to understand\nthat we do not bear any hard feelings toward him as a result of his\nactivities in examining Dr. Kneff's patients or the children of some of\nhis patients. Ifurther pointed out to Dr. Flinn that it sust be oivious\nto him in view of his activities in these particular cases, our attorneys\ndid not feel that he was of the value to them as wo had at one time assumed,\nand we, therefore, had not consulted with him as frequently as we had at\none tine. However, I endeavored to make him feel that we were just as\nkindly disposed toward him as ever, and certainly would do everything to\nenable him to continue his work, and had at all times endeavored to give\nhin standing insofar as opportunity presented itself."
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