Below: A text transcript of a letter from Gov. Huxman to Chancellor Lindley.

University of Kansas

July 13, 1938

Governor Walter A. Huxman
State House
Topeka, Kansas

My Dear Governor Huxman:

I am glad to have your inquiry concerning the opportunities for negro students in the Medical School. This is a problem of long standing in most medical schools in the North. We regret that negroes do not have equal opportunities with the whites in this respect.

The chief difficulty lies in the fact that white patients do not wish to have negro interns to serve them. Inasmuch as our Hospital is about seventy-five per cent self-supporting, we have to consider particularly the wishes of our patients in that regard.

It is hoped that, with the construction of the modern fire-proof Negro Ward in connection with the Hospital, there may be some opportunity for negro students, although the variety of clinical cases will naturally be smaller in the Negro Ward than in the entire Hospital...

We, of course, wish to give qualified negro students every opportunity that conditions permit. And in the University proper they have been given a large measure of such opportunities, which include selection to honorary societies.

Dean Wahl and I will be glad, of course, to discuss the matter more fully with you, if you so desire.

With appreciation of your interest, and with every good wish, I am

Very sincerely yours,
Chancellor