Mare Island, California 
10 September 1933. 
''DOC'* 
Your most welcome letter came this morning and. I 
imagine the negatives will get aboard Monday when we 
get our next mail. 1 didn’t s tor and use my head 
when Mr. Ageton seemed so sure that it was him who was 
going to w r rite the article for National Geographic. It 
just didn’t occur to me that he was taking it for granted, 
rather than knowing definitely. Those who make it a point 
mselves unless positive are more gullible 
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However there was no agreement that the pictures I 
gave him were for his article exclusively and as I said 
on the back of the list you will have full permission to 
use any of them with the article if you are the one to 
write it which I most sincerely hope is the case. 
I'm sure glad to hear that the Kodachromes were 
fairly good, though sorry that we didn't have the right 
"dope” on the aerial work. I appreciate very much 
the way you have helped me on all these pictures. 1 
feel that they partly yours for I know that 1 never 
would have had the opportunity to take all the different 
ones that I did, had you not made it a point to take me 
ashore every day. 
When I look back on it all I am not satisfied with 
the results I got and I can see so many things that I 
missed which really deserved a lot of attention. The 
worst of it is j I probably will never again have the chance 
to take any of the pictures over again or even any like 
them. As I asked in my other letter- Is there 
anything to what I have heard about your making a trip 
somewhere next summer on which some Naval personnel might 
go along? By then I will have had a lot of darkroom 
experience too as well as much more equipment as I get 
money to buy in the meantime. . .Guess the photography bug 
has bitten me very thoroughly. If you could take me 
on a cruise like that I would be indebted to you for the 
rest of my life and even in the hereafter. 
As you said, it was quite a mix-up that we went to 
Norfolk and I am very sorry that you did not find it out 
and bring your family down to see us. We were ordered 
there for three or four mohths assignment and then sent 
w^est within five days. No one knows yet how it all 
happened and why so many sudden changes in our orders 
were made. 
If National Geographic wants to cover the initiation 
pretty fully and time (wdiich is what spoils everything) 
