U.S.S. HOUSTON 
Long Beach, California, 
23 November, 1938 . 
Yvaldo L. Schmitt, Curator, 
Division of Marine Invertebrates, 
United States National Museum, 
Wa shington , D . C . 
Dear Dr. Schmitt : 
I received your letter of the 12th of 
November, including a set of prints for the Captain, 
Kelly and myself. We thank you very much for them. 
I am pleased that the cruise was so enjoy- 
ed by you and of scientific value as well . 
I offered to print the log book for 
Captain Callaghan on board, and so informed him. I 
also sent him a set of pictures, taken by Thompson, 
from which to choose pictures for his log, and sent 
him other pictures at other times. In addition I sent 
him fifty of the Ship’s Cruise Books, to be distri- 
buted by him as he saw fit . 
It won’t be long now before the ship will 
be south again on a long cruise away from the West 
Coast. I hope we will see you at some time during the 
cruise. I haven’t seen an itinerary of the cruise, so 
don’t know where we wall be at different times. 
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My very best regards to you and thanks 
again for the pictures. I hope we’ll be shipmates 
again. 
Sincerely, 
C.A. BAILEY. 
