September 9, 193S 
Lieutenant Commander f . J. Kelley, u.S.N. 
U. S. S. Houston 
Mare Island, California 
Dear Mr. Kelley: 
That was certainly hard luck that we nlayed into with those 
sailflshi Yet, there is hope. First of all, you promise to he on the 
look-out for one when you get hack to the coast; and then, too, the 
President may go out for them again. As you know, he promised to take 
tho Hous ton next year. I do wish, however, that we might have connected 
up with one of those specimens that you folks destroyed. I had thought 
of sanding that letter air sail, hut felt that nothing would he gained. 
That is where I made my Mistake perhaps, hut who would have thought that 
the ship was going to he sent up to Horfolk! After I heard that, I planned 
to come down and visit you folks over a week end, hut before I could get 
started she was ordered off again. Ho doubt the majority of you are 
happier for having been ordered home. 
I hope I didn’t hurt Ageton's feelings too much when I told 
him that I also was working on an article for the Hation&i Geographic 
Magazine. Mr. Barly and I had discussed it while the cruise was in 
progress, and not until I got ray pictures developed and took them up to 
the Geographic did I know that I had a competitor in the field. Mr. 
Barly has no objection to his writing up the naval angle hut, as I am 
working on the scientific end of things, I didn't feel free to give him 
my notes and pictures which I had taken to embellish my own article. 
The matter of having you folks stop at Clioperfenn on the way 
out was tfken up with the Secretary of the Smithsonian, hut he did not 
feel that we should bother the Wavy Department for a thing of that eort 
after all the courtesies and favors we had received at your hands during 
the Presidential Cruise. It will have to go over until some other year, 
and certainly when I get the chance I shall work on the President to the 
extent of having him stop there again. I do hope that his next cruise 
will start sufficiently high up on the west coast to take in COLipperton. 
