12/18 Do you remember my once writing to you about a mysterious Hungarian, whom we found in the University? They found him in the laboratory, with a strange inscription traced in chalk on the wall by which he lay dead. These were the words:--'After giving it a fair trial, I find that life is not worth living for. I have decided to destroy myself with a poison of my own discovery. My chemical papers and preparations are hereby bequeathed to my friend Doctor -- --, and my body is presented as a free gift to the anatomy school. |