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Port Vila, Efate 
September 18, 1972 
Dear Marion; 
Please mall (put stamps on — I left a book of 11^ stamps in Ralph 
Garruto’s desk) the American Express payment. It is for over $1100 so it is 
urgent . 
Please, in early October to mid-October, get next American Express 
statement and radio me the amount due to the Alpha Helix . Do not mail the 
statement — I cannot receive it on time anywhere! Radio me the amount due and I 
shall mail off the check to them. Please keep asking Joe Wegsteln and the boys 
for it (it comes to my home, not my office) starting October 71 
Don Rubinstein and Paul Brown are here. The most urgent matter is the 
dispatch to Santa Cruz of three or four 20 liter liquid nitrogen reservoirs for 
the mid-October once monthly flight from Honiara to Santa Cruz. We hope Michael 
Alpers, Stephen Wiesenfeld, Joe Gibbs and Nancy Rogers will be on that flight. 
It is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we hope you can talk Joe Gibbs 
into coming. We need him in the tissue culture lab and Nancy too! Badly! They 
would have a wonderful time. I know that Michael has signaled me that he cannot 
make it. Do not give up our Santa Cruz plane reservations — keep them open for 
use by Joe Gibbs, Nancy Rogers, Stephen Wiesenfeld, liquid N 2 and others! 
Above all, keep trying to get Joe Gibbs and Nancy to come. The ship is 
luxurious and fantastic and the laboratories are wonderful! 
Urgent, find our new liquid N 2 reservoirs. They are not at Brisbane! 
Get them to Brisbane and have them filled for the October 15th flight Honiara to 
Santa Cruz to meet us! We need these four reservoirs of 20 liters each (no 
fewer than 2 will do!). Dr. MacGregor must be called to help be sure they get 
on the plane, and Brisbane must get the new reservoirs which were not there yet 
(where did they disappear to from the back room of our office when I thought 
they had gone off to Brisbane blood bank?). 
We sail tomorrow. All is fine. 
Remember Don Rubinstein is already with us. He made it! 
With love to you all. 
Carleton 
