January h, 1939 
Dear T . J . : 
f hat's good news I I am indeed glad to hare your letter of 
the 18 th saying that you folks will be here the latter part of April. 
I hope that 1 will be back in. time to greet you in person. Some time 
about the middle of .arch I am leaving for a little work along the 
north coast of Colombia and Venezuela. This time it is not with the 
President, though we had talked over some such possibility. The work 
that I will do, nevertheless, will be much the same sort of thing that 
you a aw pulled off on the Houston, with, of course, a great deal less 
could use somebody like you on a trip of that sort. 
I wish I might write you that the wahoo was being mounted . 
The only specimens we have are those that came back from this last 
cruise, and so they are too valuable scientifically for study purposes 
to be put out of circulation as mounted specimens. 
With regard to the article that I was planning to write, 
the national Geographic Magazine turned us all down. I am beginning 
to think that they are dyed in the wool Hooverites. The Museum is 
getting out a series of papers on the scientific results, for which 
I am now penning a brief introduction, something on the order of 
Captain Callaghan's log. I am making a brief but complimentary men- 
tion of the services you rendered in getting us ashore at Clipperton. 
Can you let me have a copy of the report that you planned to turn in 
to the Havy regarding the landing? I'd like to have the technical 
details, as it were, of the landing from the point of view of the 
commanding officer of the landing party, that Is, if it is not an official 
sec ret . 
Lt.-Commdr. T. J. Kelly 
U. S. S. HOUSTON 
hong Beach, California 
If you do 
I'll surely get back i 
you are being detached 
lew Tork? I 
out of Washington when you come 
to greet you. Does your letter 
Houston, or will you join 
the family up there 
what their daddy traveled around 
