“I think it is quite illuminating and am very glad to have the facts to add to my statistics. The marked peripheral oedema in the presence of pulmonary stenosis with closed foramen ovale is also very interesting.”

“Last week we discovered a congenital Rhabdomyoma of the heart in a nine month old child…I have been unable to find a bibliography since this time…”

Babe [name omitted]. – Description of case. – “I have attached description of the heart and the stains of microscopic
sections together with our impression made by examining these sections.”

“I have seen in consultation a four year old child who is the second child…. The first child died from some congenital lesion. This child’s birth was normal…and was perfectly normal until a few months ago when he occasionally fainted during play (strenuous), and at this time would be slightly cyanotic…”

“As regards your interesting case of tumour of the heart of a child of nine months, I have gone over the reports carefully and examined the slides, and am unable myself to arrive at a definite conclusion… I have arranges to go the sections with Dr. L. J. Rhea, Pathologist at the Montreal General Hospital.

“After careful examination of the sections, he [Dr Rhea, Montreal General Hospital] pronounced it a low grad fibrosarcoma with marginal infiltration, and we saw no indications of its being rhabdomyoma.

Hand written note to Abbott regarding sections mentioned above.

Requesting Abbott’s opinion about importance of article: “You may recall corresponding in 1931 with Dr. Alfred Plant, the pathologist at Beth Israel Hospital, New York, about the case of a heat with a supernumerary cusp and pulmonary insufficiency… I have written up the case report…the article was refused…”