V. E. B. NICHOLSON & SONS 
TRAVFX SERVICE 
YACHT CHARTER SPECIALISTS 
COWSDR. V. E. B. NICHOLSON', C.E.E., R.N, 
0. V. NICHOLSON 
R. A. NICHOLSON 
Dr, Waldo Schmitt 
The Smithsonian Instution 
Ifashinr-ton 25 
D. G, 
P. O. BOX 103 
St. John's, 
Antigua, B.W.l. 
I6tli July, 1959 
CABLE ADDRESS 
TRAVEL—ANTIGUA 
Dear Dr. Schmitt, 
I have your letter of June 2bth, with the enclosed clippings, 
Thanhs for sending these; thej’- were very interesting - especially 
the one about the IIARYLEIGH, as ’.^e cruised on her in Maine before 
vje got married, with Lisa's family, 
I am glad the shipment is alright, and I nov; looh forv/ard to 
seeing some of the colour films. 
I enclose some 5'’x7”*s of the best black and white photos I 
took. If there are further copies you would like, I'd be very pleased 
to do them. Also, if you wish to reproduce any, I could do larger 
and clearer prints for you, perhaps, or I could send the negatives, 
for the printers to get the best possible results, T think the museum 
should ovm the bat and dark cave negatives anyvray, if thej'" v;ould like, 
as that roll \ms done on Smithsonian film. Also, I was strictly 
working for the museum in both these caves. 
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Please do not bother to send any print paper, thanlis. It 
readily obtalna,ble here. I have jvist gotten some wonderful solution 
that develops and fixes films in one process, vrith no temperature 
control. It saves a great deal of time and trouble, perhaps when 
I run out of this, in a fevi months' time, I may ask you to send me 
some more 
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It's good news indeed tha,t there is some chance that you might 
come again in I960, PRK3LA1TCE is still free from about the beginning 
of A-pril, and we will let you loiov^ if v;e get any enquiry for that 
e, so that you can have a sort of option on her - just in case 
Yes, I think you have all ray notes on the anemone associations 
I'm now rapidly becoming interest-. ‘in the alcyonarian associations 
of Latreutes and Hippolyte, so perhaps I can work something up on 
that subject. Thanks for sending some collecting material, 
oleased to 'out it to use when it arrives. 
I'll be 
Ail® 
No, I'm afraid our garden is not flourishing - it's just like a 
desert ^'e've been having a terrible spell of hot drj'' weather, and 
ever 2 ftiiing is brov/n and withered - and we don't have a hose to help 
the poor plants out, though I go aground in the evenings and give them 
some xjater out of a bucket. We a,re hopina for rains soon. 
p.S .1^ 
