November 12, 193 s 
Mr. ", B. Thompson , SE30 
U.S.S. HOUSTON 
Long Beach, California 
Dear Tommy; 
Her© are a number of 5x7 prints made from the Kodaehromes . 
Some of them turned out to b© very beautiful, I think, all thanks to 
you. They are not for publication, at least, until I hare had a chance 
to place an article, which, as I wrote you before, could not appear 
before next February. 
I wish that I could send prints to every one with whom I be- 
came accrual nted on board, but we can’t afford it at this end. However, 
I am enclosing a few for some of the rest of cur shore gang, including 
one for Davey Jones and a few for Sivak. Won’t .you see that they get 
in their hands? One envelope labeled Worthington is for the carpenter 
of that name. He is standing just below the cowling of the second 
plane in the picture, the left-hand man of the two without shirts. He 
called on me here at the Museum and I promised him a pfint of himself. 
In still another envelope are enough copies of three of the 
shore parties for you to give one to each of the men shown in the pic- 
tures except the officers and Learson , whom I have attended to separ- 
ately, O'Neill, Balicki, and Barron, I know by name, as well as Jones, 
sitting on the launch; but for the moment 1 cannot give you the names 
of the other men in the pictures. I have sent pictures to Ensign B. 
Johnson for himself, Jakeaan, and the other officer of whose name I am 
not sure. Is it Buaas? 
I have heard nothing wire about another trio beyond the 
possibility of going tome time after the first of the year, but not 
before. Farious circumstances seem to have changed what plans they 
might have had for an earlier cruise. Those rumors I got chiefly from 
you and you, in turn, from Jones, 
Si merely. 
1LS : LMc 
Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator, 
Division of Marine Invertebrates. 
