Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection

Letter fragment from Jesse W. Lazear to Mabel H. Lazear, July 15, 1900

Columbia Barracks
July 15. 1900

the ordinary rainy season.
It rains regularly every
afternoon.

The laboratory work goes
on but not as satisfactorily
as I had hoped.

Dr. Reed had been in the
old discussion over Sanarelli's
bacillus and he still
works on that subject.
I am not all interested
in it but want to do
work which may lead
to the descovery of the
real organism. However
I am doing as much
as, I can.

Dr. Carroll is not a very

entertaining person. He is a bacteriologist
pure and simple. To me bacteriology
is interesting only in its relation to
medicine. He is interested in germs
for their own sake, and has a
very narrow horizon. Still good
work may come out of it all.
Carroll would amuse you very much.
He is very tall and thin. Wears spectacles,
bald headed, has a light red mustache,
projecting ears and a rather dull
expression