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Filed: James McConnaughey 
March lit, 1957 
AIR MAIL 
Mr. James McConnaughey 
The Ket tering-Oakwood Times 
2600 Far Hills Building 
Dayton 9 , Ohio 
Dear Mr. McConnaughey: 
I am writing this upon the heels of our telephone conversa- 
tion which mis-fired, hoping that it will reach you promptly. 
I would be most happy to have Mr. Stafford, and I have gathered 
from the few words we had together this morning that he is most 
acceptable to you . If it can be arranged , we shall have him on 
board, and I shall try including him in the party without ado, 
but, of course, I am responsible to the people here who probably 
would be reluctant to do anything for which they might later be 
criticized. I shall do my best to include Stafford. On the 
other hand, in one of his letters Jack Randall says that your 
agent, John Reasin, had lined up a native captain whom he 
expected us to take. I do not know where ?fc*. Reasin got this 
idea, but still if he has a man and is your agent, it undoubtedly 
would be somebody whom you and we could trust. Hu' certainly 
would not do anything to alienate your regard for him. At this 
moment I do not know Just how things will work out. We shall try 
to work Stafford into our party, and, failing that, perhaps take 
the man that Reasin has on tap. It was this matter of Reasin and 
his candidate that I was trying to pass on to you when the phone 
went bad. 
Sincerely, 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Department of Zoology 
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