July 13, 1956
Dear Mr. Rayburn:
After some thirty-five years experience in the Rockefeller Foundation working on medical education and research I retired as of July 1, 1956. Out of that experience I venture to say to you that you have in the bill for a National Medical Library (H.R. 11524) a legislative measure of the greatest importance to medicine throughout
the world.
If the bill is being kept in the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce because of any misunderstanding as to the importance of its soon coming to a vote, I shall feel more honest if I write you my conviction regarding its importance.  A failure to bring this bill to vote will produce graver disappointment and disaffection among the soberer and wiser doctors I know than would any other medical legislative action I can imagine.
I beg you to take the steps needed to get the bill before the House in the present session.
Yours sincerely,