4, 1941 
Dear Dr. Sohmitti 
Thank you for your oard froia Brownsville, lio were glad to hear 
Tuesday that you had arrived safely and found everything all right down 
idiere. An Eastern airliner, flying between lliaaii and New York, went down 
in a Florida swamp. It was lost for several hours before it oould be 
found. Had sixteen people aboard, but no one was killed, though every- 
one was injured but only slightly. They were very lucky, 
I am sending you copies of some correspondence with Iselin, 
The telegram came two days ago, of ootirse, but I waited for the letter 
which arrived only this morning, I sand also a carbon of ray reply. I 
called up Graf and told him tlie gist of Iselin’s letter and s aid I would 
send it over to him. He sounded rather uninterested, I hope the thing 
is not going to be messed up for you while you are not here to defend 
your own interests, I hope what I wrote Iselin is all right. I thought 
it only right to tell him that you were actually down there looking the 
ground over. That knowledge might, make him more willing to wait for an 
answer about the Dohrn , 
I > 10 von’ t told any one else that you have gone anywhere but 
Manama. I think Sohultz is burning up with curiosity, unless ha 3ms found 
out elsww3iere. Hilda v/as in here and asked if you weren’t liere and I said, 
’’Oh, he flew to Panama Saturday." She was open-mouthed in astonisiiment, and 
I know she ran back as fast as she could to tell Sohults. Later in the day 
I met him at tiie rotxmda door. Ho Imlf-stopped and said, "I hear your boss 
has gone off on anotiier trip." I didn’t slacken my pace as I passed himj 
just said breezily back ofer my shoulder? "Yes, he’s off again, oftf again, gone 
again," I just thought— let Mm try and find out anything from mel 
I took the ‘^ackson manuscript back to Ur, True’s office yestery- 
day afternoon. I had worked on it steadily all week, and I still would hate 
to bet very much money on its accuracy! I made a decision one way or tbhe 
other, to my own satisfaction, on all t3ie points Mumford brought up, caught 
a couple of typograpkioal errors, and checked a few references again. Un- 
less we get out the books and check every reference in the paper, tlmt is 
about all we can do. Miss MaoManus lias been working on it, too, for quite 
some time, 
l-ir, Bryant is arranging to get your passport. They idill not give 
back t3ie old one, I understand, but will issue a new one for which they 
demanded new photographs, I dug up my copy of the picture Mr, Wisherd 
^Nat, Geographic) took of you and Mr, Bryant had several prints of passport 
size made. It takes a letter from Secretary Abbot to get the passport, but 
he wrote it yesterday and two copies of the new piatsuros were sent up with 
his letter. 14r. Bryant will send the passport off as soon as he gets it a 
I*m sure you’ll get it in time# 
letter oeme yesterday from Gates, in wliioh he asked you to 
arrange for rooms for them next weak with the woman with whom^ they stayed 
last time they were here# I called Mrs* Sohi^iitt to get the womans name^ 
