“I am sending you, under separate cover, a specimen which I think represents an atresia of bulb, root ascending aorta…I am enclosing a copy of the protocol.

Regarding photo and description of a heart with congenital defects “autopsy on a 19 year old man suffering with dyspnoea, intense precordial pain, and cyanosis.

Regarding a request for two copies of articles on Coarctation of the Aortain adults. “…having made the clinical diagnosis twice when the past 3 years. One died of a rupture of the aorta and had apparently a complete stenosis just below the insertion of the ductus botali”

“I am compiling an Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease, and would like to include a picture of the curious anomaly you reported in the Anatomical Record, 1934, v.58, p. 245…”

Regarding a twin “five months old with a systolic murmur, cyanosis and enlarged heart with left ventricular preponderance…the other twin seems normal.” The parents have asked to have Abbott come to see the child.

“We have made a striking discovery. You may recall that the fourth case of congenital heart disease which we reported in Rochester, New York, last year was still alive at the age of 58 ½ years. We were bold enough to make a diagnosis as you may remember of Tetralogy of Fallot. The paper was published in the American Heart Journal for last October, Volume III, page 77…Two weeks ago he had left hemiplegia which persisted completely. He died three days ago at the age of 59 and a little less than 8 months. His heart showed a moderately large interventricular septal defect about 3 cm in diameter with low pulmonic or rather infundibular stenosis, dextroposition of the aorta and a large right ventricle, thus confirming the diagnosis of Tetralogy of Fallot….”

Regarding misquoting Abbott in his book.

Regarding forwarding reprints from American Heart Journal, 1928.