I have been hoping to see you and Mrs. Gorgas in Washington and wondered what you found at Buffalo to keep you so long; but a letter from Carroll just received, mentions your return to Havana. So you have, indeed, given us the “glad go-bye!” Well, as Columbia has just _won_ from Shamrock, I’ll have to forgive you this time! But you mustn’t do so any more, or there will be “trouble on the old man’s mind.” I trust that you found the yellow-fever situation satisfactory. I wish that I could have known the No. of cases and deaths for September, so that I could have included them in our paper, but it is too late now. Don’t forget to keep me on your exchange list. I had a letter from your brother in answer to one I wrote you for which please give him my best thanks. You were saying, if I remember, that you would like to have your former assistants, Lyster and Shockley, back again. If you haven’t them, and still want somebody, I only mention the fact that Asst. Surgeon Devereux, who has been on duty with Borden at the Genl. Hospital here, leaves in a day or two for Havana, to report for duty, and might suit you very well as an assistant.... Borden says that he has made a very good assistant. You might have your eye open for him. Give my kindest regards to Mrs. Gorgas. Good-bye. Sincerely, your friend, REED. (11) Havana, Cuba, Oct. 8, 1901. MY DEAR REED: I was sorry that I did not see you before leaving Buffalo, and have an opportunity of talking with you over your superb paper, and arguments with Wadsin. Nothing could have been clearer, it seems to me. I congratulate you upon being the First Vice-President; I think you ought to have been President but that matter had been arranged beforehand as going to the retiring Treasurer, who had held that office so long. Other names as First Vice-President had been proposed to the Committee, but when your name was mentioned, they all voluntarily withdrew, and you were nominated without a single dissenting voice. You will see from the report how we are coming along. The record is just as good; two deaths for September. We have had a little focus about the “Mercado del Vapor,” but I think we have squashed it. Our last case occurred Sept. 26th. Ten days without a case, this time of the year, is pretty good. But our general death rate took a most remarkable drop. We had only 339 deaths in September, a rate of 15.64 per thousand. You had better move down to Havana with your family. I am getting so that I am afraid to go back to the United States and run all the risks of infection and bad hygiene that you are constantly subjected to in cities such as Washington, New York, etc. I looked into it carefully, and am positive that there is no error in the figures. I don’t believe it is possible for a person to be buried in Havana without my knowledge, and I know that these figures are correct.