don't turn him down may easily sake grad®* Evan though it is his 
fond papa talking# h© doss make a cracking good officer, just the 
kind of material they are looking for* II© would have been West 
Point but for a little difficulty with his loft ey®. 
1 suppose it is too rmoh to hope that you nay pass through 
Washington for special orders bofor® talcing over your Alaska assign- 
laent* 
Sincerely 
mldo L. Schmitt, Curator, 
Division of Marin© Invsrtobrates 
