Letters Received to H.H. Barker, March 4, 1929

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA MAR 6 1000 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY March 4, 1929 Mr. H. H. Barker United States Radium Corporation 535 Pearl Street New York, New York My dear Howard: Instead of arriving home late Thursday, I spent the week end making visits en route. First, I stopped at Lafayette- Purdue Uni versity-where I talked to the Purdue Section of the Ameri- can Chemical Society on Radium Poisoning. It was a called meeting, but Moore and his boys gathered a fair sized audience in about an hour. The next day I visited the plant of the Cornstalk Products Company at Panville, Illinois, and then I surprised Esther at Urbana. Walked into the Cafe where she and her room-mate were just starting on their first course. By missing a train or two, I managed to kill the rest of the time remaining in the week. Spent most of the day yesterday sleeping. Feel quite fit this morning. The samoles of foeces and urine residues referred to by Dr. Turner have come to hand excent the last two. See my notation on the bills enclosed. (Samples have just come) I hone that you will get the Commission to en- dorse the suggestion made by Dr. Failla, namely. that I proceed to determine the radium content of the residues. I shall hold the resi- dues until I receive word through you from the Commission. You advanced me in all one hundred and twenty five dollars, which I spent going and returning. I am enclosing bill to cover this amount. I shall render no further bill for services for I regard the tests made on Miss Freyer and Mrs. Hussman as my contri- bution to the research project on Radium Detection and Estimation. I expect to cover the rest of my expenses, and to make a few dollars for service rendered Messrs. Edwards and Smith, and the United States Public Health Service. Will send you a report of findings on Miss Hollo- way later, as well as a report on the tests we conducted in Hotel Marseilles and at Newark City Hospital.