5 & 7 Lucas Street 
St , George 
Grenada B W I 
5’ebruary 5th, 1957 
Dr, Waldo L Schmitt 
Dear Dr. Schmitt, 
I am quite pleased to see that you remembered the 
brief contact we had when you visited this Island last spring. And I 
am more so in that you remembered my enquiry about the late Dr Busick 
I must thank you for passing on the enquiry to his sons, 
I hope that you had a successful trip through the 
islands and were able to secure specimens of whatyou were in search 
of. It is particularly pleasing to learn that our island has not lost 
much of its charm despite the severe beating it took from the recent 
hurricane. We are facing up to our problems fortified by all the 
help and sympathy we received throughout the hemisphere. It was a 
great shock to us as we had been deceiving ourselves with the thoue-ht 
’’it cannot happen here”, 
There was a lot written about the destruction and 
I will try to secure some accounts of it. So far as the comparison of 
exports are concerned these are readily available from Government 
and I give you the figures below. Unfortunately these are only avail 
are 
in bags 
of 200 1 
cwt Cocoa i 
1951 
48504 
3576116 
52 
54178 
3537395 
53 
61128 
3852773 
54 
51362 
4959403 
55 
47327 
4158807 
56 
10946 
619120 
Sep - 
Dec 55 
cwt Nut s f 
23158 1489964 
1532810 
1405445 
1939803 
2787051 
8894043 
44607 
37082 
48881 
58887 
31432 
cwt Mace $ 
5199 746654 
6886 788679 
7505 876599 
7439 977881 
6478 1172518 
808 304146 
other 
9245 
13805 
68782 
9498 
10405 
60 
spices 
3866 
8005 
85761 
4583 
5001 
3787 
28553 1279062 8217 458091 
39 1708 
Cocoa 
Sep 55 27,270 bags of 800 lbs net 
56 6,600 
I hope that the above is what you are looking for 
If however there is any further Information required donH be afraid 
to write as will be only to glad to supply, 
yours sincerely 
