Dear Brace: 
Your iet ix)r of December ? is noat ..elconuj because it brin s sereral 
points Ly:at have b-;en discresslnj Anos, it seems, and which I thoU(_,ht could 
be settled between us without disturbing vou with them. 
Perlia.'S you should ask Amos to let you see his file of the letters that 
have piissed bct'ween i.>3 tv;o* This ■'would ;ivo you a more intimate view of 
wnatf S 80 ias bo bo bho ‘troubXo® 
In lobt-or to Ai'kkj^ woro includod ths xolloviing b;aragTtighs* 
"You no aoubt i:no’w ri'om Carl ^huster/how 'we conduct ourselves and 
dress, riijci tuat, udo, trio Smithsonian likes to liave title to the scientific 
materials and^ collateral information resuitin:: froia joint expeditions of this 
sort. Also, j rucc has infoi'ned , ou of this, we are not ni^jpardly with 
sharin '; the ^ spoils — z-oolo leal, rat’ier, biolo . leal--: ;hoto,:jrapliic and liter- 
ary, ^ as Carl can tell you, I r.now ''ou are a va-iter and do a lot of free- 
iMcinji. 1 he Institution is not adverse uo the kind of publicity that you 
dispense, but, at the same time, likes to know what is yoing on. To that 
end, tne Institution '-.'ouid lilce 'to sue in advance of publication anp^thing 
you nfi'. ifjant to ;::et .Into pa’int ro yirdinp the ojqiodition, and asks tiiat 'with 
the r.eci’etai*y' s p3rrussi:.n' i. indicated somewhere; that photo pi:*a;iis , utTished 
-ns carry a courtesy of, or credit line, fioithsonian- 
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.0 ■■■Ith. .:.h:otoji’apMc i’es:.:lts. For that reason 
we iurn.iah the film u.ooJ, and of course I’etain naster or orl pinals for our 
j.-i.les. Dup licates (cOs'iea) you xj’: il be i;alcomc to. About tliese thin,:s I 
antic i'uite no difficiilties. 
"^In tr^is connection, I. have alivays been liard put to it to keep a runnint, 
io^; o. our .-ict.lvities, and shall auk you if you won't keep one for the cruise, 
kith carton ^i.apor a au^; recora can le kept, and thus serve both you and us, 
This^sort of thlnp was lot in th-.e early day u. Lower California, Alaska, and 
the first Caribbean cx:i3edition I ever was on— the Josc,ii Conra d— on which I 
met truce F?rudln, I turned over an original ; 0,;^^ in a recoro 
'lartfoM (A 
I shall briny alon to .liu 
such as 
?), who sponsored that exuedltion," 
Ask Fi ll Araos to lot you read his replies to these rebuest:-?. One of his 
early corap'laints concorned tl'ic ..rocessing of the filras. He insists that I 
■’assured" ran that ’-K; could process the filra he ex ;osed. Mo: t reprettably, I 
