V. E. B. NICHOLSON & SONS 
TRAVEL SERVICE 
YACHT CHARTER SPECIALISTS 
COWDR, V. E. B. NSCHOLSON, O.B.E., R.N 
D. V. NICHOLSON 
R. A. NICHOLSON 
Dr, Waldo Schmitt 
The Saithsonian Institution . 
United States National Musem 
Washington 25 
D. 0. 
Dear Dr, Schmitt, 
A very bad thing happened this weekend. The 
Booth Shipping Line only gave their 'agents here 
1 ^ hours notice of the arrival of their ship to 
New leork, and it only remained in Antigua half 
a day - a Holiday, at that. It got in two days 
earlier than expected, so the boxes did not make 
it aboard. There is no Warehouse in town where 
the boxes can be stored to await shipment;, and 
it was impossible to get them transported from 
the Dockyard in time due to the fact of its being 
Whit- weekend. In fact, I didn't even know 
about the ship being here until it had left, as 
the communication system pretty well took a 
holiday tooi 
It was all a very unfortunate combination 
of clrciimstances, and I am terribly sorry that 
it happened, I do hope it will not inconvenience 
you a great deal. The faulty seems mainly to lie, 
with the shipping' company that should have in- 
formed the Agency here of the changed schedule 
of the ship, so I have written them, I trust 
we will be able to get them safely on the next 
ship, which will call in about three weeks. 
If you wanted to have your say as well, the 
address of the shipping agents is; Booth. American 
Shipping Corp,; . -17 Battery Place, New -York 4, NiY, 
The ch I Af agents for this area, whom I wirote, are 
William Kennedy & Co, Ltd. 38 Marine Square, Port- 
of-Spain, Trinidad, 
I sincerely apologize for this having happened, 
and I hope the specimens will be alright without 
thiel* change of preservative, I considered having 
the lot sent by Air, but this would cost around 
I 500, 00 - much more than the shipping, 
I have done a few black and white prints of 
the Expedition, but several of my films didn't 
P. O. BOX 103 
St. John's, 
Anti gua , B.WJ. 
28th May, 1958 
CABLE ADDREbB 
TRAVEL -ANTIGUA 
