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Mar* 13. Went first to Avianca. Oh, yes, the Barranquilla 

 plane had been changed but they had lost our address and so 

 were not doing anything about it! So we leave Bogota on 

 Sunday and lose one day. We had to go back to the office 

 twice to get our new tickets out of Bogotd* 



Next went to the Chaves studio to get our liagdalena. 

 picture. We liked the original a little better than the 

 copy and we got it on the grounds that the copy was too 

 fresh to pack safely. We met don Luis on the street and 

 asked him for the Zulueta address but he couldn't supply 

 it. More shopping and back to Casa G6mez, late for lunch. 

 Dr Cuatrecasas was waiting to invite us to tea. Ra&l Varela 

 was up from Palmira and had lunch with us; the table con- 

 versation was mostly on the question of postwar leadership. 

 Varela believed that it would be the United States in the 

 New World, Japan in Asia and either Germany or Russia in 

 Europe. The thought that we would put up a serious fight 

 against Japan seemed not to have occurred to anyone* 



After lunch I went to the Institute and identified mis- 

 cellaneous beetles for Otoya and Osorno. 



Clara waited at Gasa G6mez and was called for by Mrs lie- 

 Kibben and Mrs Jorge Vargas (American born, had lived in 

 Bogota lit years and had a daughter 21 years old) . They 

 went to the church of San Juan de Dios, Calle 10, W 9-93 > 

 it is very old, gray outside and whitewashed within, the 

 vestibule Is a beautiful carved wood wall, in the church 

 much old red combined with old, gold and a very large wooden 

 statue of San Francisco. From there they went to the Capilla 

 del Sagrario, which is small and simple, with huge dark Yds- 

 quez paintings up both side walls and to the right and left 

 of the altar. The room was too dark to really see the 

 paintings . 



Between Sagrario and the Cathedral is the antique shop 

 Cancinos. Behind the small shop is a three story building, 

 once a convent but now the display rooms of the shop. There 

 were thousands of objects, paintings, chairs and tables all 

 crowded together. There is another antique shop in the back 

 of LI Wensajero on Carrera 7 & but Clara was told that there 

 only the old china was authentic. 



Next they went to ronteblanco for chocolate milk shakes 

 and home. 1 had returned and at 5. 30 dona Ines and Dr Cua- 

 trecasas called for us and we all walked to the tea-room-, 

 Calle 12, K e 7-^3 * rs Cuatrecasas came later and Dr Jose 

 Royo G6mez was waiting for us at the tea-room. . 



After dinner don Luis called with the proofs of Natalie's 

 interview for us to look over and OK. 



Mar. liu In the morning we wrapped the gifts that we had 

 for the Kurillo girls, went to the Embassy for our mail and 

 found letters from Lucy, Easel and Helen. Then to Carrera 



