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to no one. Later in my life, as I said, I was devoted to Mrs. John Dore, and I secretly determined again that if I ever had any time or funds I'd try to do something about cancer. (She died in 1930, I find.)

However, I was occupied in the '30s, mostly with making a living. In the early '40s, as I told you, I devoted myself to try to advance the cause of planned parenthood, and it was only in 1943 that I started to think seriously about the cancer problem. This year we had a cook at 29 Beekman Place, whose name was Maria Amosio. Nancy, my housekeeper, told me that she was not well, and I recommended her to a woman doctor, who told me that she had cancer, and she suggested that she see a doctor at New York Hospital for treatment with radium. It was too late, however; she grew steadily worse. I got her into a home for advanced cancer patients and there she died. I was shocked that nothing had been done to help her successfully, as I had felt sure that much progress must have been made since Mrs. Dore's death in 1930.

Fortunately, I had no personal experience with anyone close to me, since Mrs. Dore's death, and just assumed that much more must be known than I did, as I did not follow the whole field of medical research carefully at this time.

While we were in Colorado Springs in the summer of '43, I met Dr. Philip Hensch of Mayo's. He interested me as being the only person I ever met who was interested in research in arthritis and determined to do something about it. He also even had a theory that arthritis was connected with hormone production, a theory which, fortunately, in 1949 he was able