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Home Sunday Morning
Nov. 23^d '56

Dear Bob

Yours, without date, came
yesterday. You are right, to pay most
attention to chemistry, anatomy and
physiology, surgery, materia medica
&c. - about in the order named -
and while you are in Chicago, if
you intend to be a physician, at all,
you must make the lectures, at
the college, your chief, if not
sole object. And yet, if you can
have quiet, at night,- and will per-
=tinaciously avoid all outside
influences, - I do not doubt your being
able, (by a systematic and orderly disposi-
=tion of your time) to work on your Tret
=ise[double underline] without much prejudice to your
medical studies. And it really
seems a pity to abandon the
work, when half accomplished, and
lose this opportunity to secure both
money and fame[double underline]. What and
these