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I thank you, Marlon, Joe and others, for NOT loading me with all the 
accumulated mall and problems here at Honiara. I could not even open mall and 
read It while here at port. I have seen Paul's manuscript and. In a drizzle 
while awaiting a boat to take me out to the Alpha Helix laying In anchor In the 
harbor, 1 have scanned It and started to correct It. It will be mailed from 
Ponape when we reach there In 4 days. Good work! I am going over Genetics VII 
en route to Ponape also, but how In the world did Steven ever let me off with 
the ONLY COPY... It sounds ridiculous, since we NEVER do that, and also, my copy 
Is xeroxed? I thought he could finish It off and submit It. Will do what 1 can 
In next four days. 
My rent check, probably late when you get It, Is enclosed. I had hoped my 
American Express bill would be here. Pray that It Is In Ponape, for I will be 
In trouble If It Is not. Please, Marlon, send In the rent check promptly. 
1 need word from the boys, and Mororul told me very little when 1 
telephoned him from the ship off Vanlkoro one morning. . .virtually nothing about 
what was going on. It was a bust! 
I am not even sure that Mat got to Ullthl at all before he rushed back to 
D.C., but do not Intend to revive that story, even In my thoughts now. Plenty 
of time once I am back. Warning: from the tone of Paul's last cable, 1 am 
prepared to take off maximum leave and then sit at home doing real work on 
reading and papers and avoid all contact with our administration If It plans to 
bug me on my return. I had enough of that when last back and will not accept 
any more. 
No, Joe Gibbs should NOT approve anything that will permit Dick to play the 
game of disappearing just before I surface to resurface himself just after I 
leave. A neat further trick of parasitism. 1 will not approve anything and If 
administration and those above me wish to, then It Is on them and their 
judgement and they cannot throw the approval back at me later. 1 think Dick 
should go off on the trip but not continuing under my support. That Is what It 
amounts to until he transfers to another supervision or finds himself a new 
post. If 1 approve, the situation will NEVER change. It must. 
No more for the moment. 4 a.m. and we must be up at 6 a.m. 
Tell the boys I miss them, and will soon be back. 
Love, 
Carleton 
