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Mar. 4, 1935.

EMK [?]-

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Dear Dr. Van Waters:

Russell McWilliams
asked me to write to you for him.
Russells mother has been ill
in the hospital for the last two
months

He finds his mother gets a great
deal of comfort from his letters and
has been writing only to her

I hope you will understand
his seeming neglect in his not
writing to you.

His mother has been quite ill
with a heart ailment. But at
present is some what better

Inasmuch as he is unable to
write you at the present time