Letter from Margaret Baumeister to Minnie, April 20, 1953 — sheet 2
Book 2, Page 220 ·1953
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done their best to show her sympathy and kindness.
“Never tell me New York is a heartless city without a soul” — she said, her eyes shining. It was incredible.
The hospital pleases her in every respect. Puck is contented, comfortable, even happy, in his room with four three other little boys, and in the big play room with all the other children, where they have their meals and play times. He is not loneseome for his mother, though the visiting hours are very restricted.
Dee spoke so frankly of the gloomy outlook for the future.
“It seems almost a shame to put the child through the pain of the operation”, she said, "But there is a chance, and we must take it. The doctor has told
AI Notes
Second sheet of the four-sheet letter of Apr. 20, 1953 from Margaret Baumeister to ‘Minnie’ (cf. pp. 219, 221, 222). Plain unprinted stationery, blue fountain-pen ink in flowing cursive. The writer reports on her visit to nine-year-old Pickens Walker ‘Puck’ Corbell in hospital — contented in a room with three other boys — and on Dee Corbell’s frankness about his prognosis on the eve of the leg amputation. Margaret first wrote ‘four’ and then struck it through to write ‘three’ above.