December 21, 1917 In the afternoon I visited Hilda¹⁶ at her lab in the Hooper Research Lab at the Affiliated Colleges. She was clothed in an apron and had a series of test tubes filled with bacteria cultures - some of which she showed me on slides. She had cages of guinea pigs in which she was growing tetanus, typhoid, and other bacteria germs. She introduced me to Dr. Mayer, the acting head who spoke of his experience in South and B.C. Africa with titsifly. Another Dr. Williams I met also and he has been in South America. At night, Hilda dined with me in the rose room of the Palace and we danced until 11pm and then I took her home to 2 Hugo Street in a fog. December 22, 1917 Hilda took me down to Carmel for Xmas where her parents are stopping. We took the 2pm train and arrived at Monterey at 6pm, then took an autobus to Carmel. Her father is suffering from Brights Disease.... He was Professor of Languages at Stanford and told me that he has many new facts on the origin of English words and language in manuscript. Both he and his wife are from Michigan University at Ann Arbor. Hilda has just returned from 2 years in England, 3 months in Algiers, and a month in France doing medical investigation on disease germs as a freelance. She visited Denmark and Sweden also. The family put me up in the house and I was very comfortable.