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46 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

February 8, I947.

Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists,
Princeton, NewJersey. 

   I sent my small contribution to Professor Einstein directly hoping to increase it later- because I had mislaid your reply envelope.   I am using it now to tell you that I passed on Professor Einstein' s letter and the accompanying pamphlet to a member of thie Club at which I am living at present - The Women's Republican Club of Massachusetts - feeling sure that she would be interested. 

 She is Miss Gertru de Shurtcliff whose nephew William (I think that is his name ) Shirtcliff who went as a U.S. observer to Bikini and wrote home a diary letter of the experiment from start to finish, to be sent around to his relatives.  I had the pleasure of reading it and found it a most graphic description . 

  Miss Shurtcliff read the literature I lent ler and was immemsely interested.   She said she would contribute and would write to your Committee for communications such as I had received to distribute to friends whom she thought would be interested. 

  I am writing this hoping that I did right in trying to  disseminate the information that you gave me, but perhaps I was officious and infringed on your plans.   If so please forgive me. 

  As to the other letter which I wrote to you about the try out os Atomic Remedies on the sick, perhaps that was an impropriety, but I have felt and still feel that it might be used i in a large scale to readjust populations.  Japan you remember in her days of power deliberately ' thinned out, her overgrown population by disposing of babies and old people, and brought it back to what she considered a normal amount. 

  To-day in Boston unrecorded epidemics similar in character among babies in Cambridge Hospital and the Insane at Bridgwater State Institution have done the same thing.  Of course this must be an epidemic but it coud be done with experimental medicine. 

  Yours very sincerely   
( Miss ) Alice Roundy.