Many thanks for your October report. The November report has not been received yet, but hope to get it later. I got your kind letter of Dec. 6th. Certainly the results for October and November could hardly be beaten. I think that we should thank Heaven and be satisfied. Another experimental case of yellow fever? Look here, Mr. Sanitary Officer, if you don’t stop applying stegomyia to willing Castilians, there will be trouble yet! Carroll fairly grinned all over when I read it to him! He wishes to be very kindly remembered to you. I am glad that Dr. Finlay still finds his Tetragenus. Please remember me to him. What a splendid paper that was of Guiteras in _American Medicine_! I was delighted with it. Make my best regards to him, also, please. The weather here is so very cold that I long for the balminess of the Cuban atmosphere. Why men and women will persist in living in cold climates is something that I can’t possibly understand. Stay where you are. Don’t permit even the evacuation of the Island to bring you away. We need you as a defence against yellow Jack! Well, the hour is five p. m. and all have long since left the office. I must hurry home in an open street-car and thereby chill my very marrow. My best regards to Mrs. Gorgas.... With all manner of greetings for a Merry Xmas and happy 1902, believe me, Sincerely, your friend, REED. (14) War Department, Surgeon General’s Office, Army Medical Museum and Library, Washington, Jan. 14, 1902. MY DEAR GORGAS: In response to your request just received, I have forwarded to you a copy of each of our Reports which I will ask you to hand to the French Consul with my compliments. I was just about to write to you, to ask at what time during 1901 you omitted to disinfect bedding or clothing. I think that you wrote that about August 15th, you no longer required such disinfection, but I cannot find your letter. Again: Can you not give me some of the data with regard to your fight for control of the epidemic in Santiago de las Vegas? Did your results show by the prompt suppression of the epidemic in that town that you were adopting the right measures? I have just been asked to write an article for the English _Journal of Hygiene_, setting forth our observations, as well as the work of the Medical Department in Cuba, and I should like to mention Santiago de las Vegas as well as Havana, giving you, of course, full credit for the results obtained. I haven’t your December report as yet. Please send me a copy of it. I never was quite so busy in all of my life and sigh for the 3d of April, when I can get this class off my hands. How is your epidemic in Havana? How I would like to run away from my present surroundings and go on a “toot” with you and Kean! Please let me hear from you promptly, as I must prepare my paper by the end of February. Remember me very kindly to Mrs. Gorgas.... Sincerely yours, REED. (15)