October 1, 1938 
Mr. K. B. Thompson, SK3C, 
U.5.S. HOUSTON , 
Long Beach, California. 
Dear Tommy * 
The several prints and negatives that you sent me came safely 
to hand. I am having the latter printed, off, and will return them to 
you with a set ot prints as soon as our photographer gets around to the 
job. X do not know whether 1 specifically thanked you for the earlier 
lot of prints that you sent me. It was fun to look them over ; and I 
congratulate you again on your success as a photographer. I would like 
to know what I owe you on this second lot at least. 
I find I can’t do much with Kodachroses as pictures, so had 
some of them enlarged into black and white. I wanted 4x5, but the 
photographer insisted on doing the® in the 5x7 size. I shall send you 
some of those as soon as I get a few duplicates made. Commander Callaghan 
got the first bunch, and I have promised the President a set. After that, 
we’ll get some for ourselves. 
The Xodachroaes came out so well, that I want to know more 
about the meter readings. When you were taking the palms in the jungle, 
did you use the G reading, double normal (the arrow)? It was pretty 
dark under the trees. For the fish pictures, I take it, you used the 
arrow or normal reading because it was a close— up reading of the light 
reflected from the fish. All the fish came out very well except the 
Golden Groupers which were too red. Our photographer says that they 
wers taken too late in the day , and that although the exposure may have 
been right, the poor light threw the colors off. 
One thing I learned was that air views^loaking down on land 
siiculd, at least be normal , instead of the a reading which I used. 
However, the ol f-color of ay air pictures did not interfere with getting 
some pretty good black sad whites of them. 
Among the prints that you sent me is one of a little map, 
juage one that Aget on is using in his article. I was surprised to see 
that he had on it "Flight over Maraborough.* 1 I did not think that we 
were supposed to make public anything about flying over foreign terri- 
tory. 2 hope it is all right, because I would like to make public a 
couple of ay aeroplane views. I have yet to get 5x7 prints of those 
Xodachromes to give the Hydrographic office. If I am free to show 
them around, I will send you copies of two, which were among the most 
interesting of the few color pictures that I took myself. 
