Filed: McConnaughey, James 
March 5, 1957 
AIR MAIL 
Mr* James McConnaughey 
The Kettering-Oakwood Times 
2600 Far Hilis Building 
Dayton 9 , Ohio 
Dear Mr. McConnaughey* 
It nawrrains 3a y S h rin“1nlSfL” diS ‘ 
a&afAm < f or c .s *?«».. w irss^ sf 
that before too long they wil *y 0 f the steamers, 
as he Is unable to get passage for nis «ift on one oi 
he will have to start home some time before the end oi Apn±. 
k *£!&&& Ss 2 SSfrSrSSS 
irSlflVS JZt a a what of Carlson commends him to 
me beyond what we may otherwise find in Tahiti. 
Randall offer, a substitute, a Richard Stafford. He says. 
»rick owns about a US' cutter, the MERIDIAN (built, I might add, 
Dick owns aocu ^ d lm03t at the same time as the 
at the same boat Tahiti froTn Annapolis, Mary- 
MARF.VA) which ?he Navy, executive officer and navi- 
land. He was a lieutenant in _ the Hapr, third mate’s license 
gator on a destroyer during Mbrld * . _ f OT Panama (he has 
with the U. S. Marine Service and swapper ■= pap® r . e, ro i 
freighters out of Panama and once the ZACA for Errol 
skippered small freignters ouv friends in 
nym.) Ha is W; ^hSmaS, Z hss helpad ms 
collecting fishes and is willing to do the same for you. He 
knows how to use an aqualung.” 
But as Mr. Stafford is an American , he is not W earn 
money in Tahiti. Rawlall .uggaUad thati^wlt. * ^ ' Jhe 
Eft 2^3, ITZT^VU -ay -th it. 
Sincerely, 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Department of Zoology 
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