Sept saber 6 , 1938 
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Mr. E. B. 'Fhotapson , 3 K 3 c 
U.S.S. Houston 
Mare Island, California 
Dear foamy: 
Tou will recall cur discussing the National Geographic Magazine 
and the opportunity that it might offer of placing a number of your pic- 
tures with the article that I contemplated. I have started negotiations 
with the®, but learned when I went up there that Lieut. Ageton jumped 
the gun, as it were, and sent them a lot of pictures fro® Norfolk with 
the idea of doing an article himself on the cruise. 
1 am taking the matter up today with Mr. Sarly and the Geo- 
graphic Magazine, to see who® they may want to write up the Presidential 
Cruise. Whichever way they decide, you will have a chance to place your 
pictures and so you will not be the loser, but meanwhile I hope that I 
may have first call upon them. Ho matter how the decision runs, I shall 
certainly put them in touch with you for pictures. I want you to be 
able to make the utmost out of what you have taken. 
I am returning under separate cover your negatives and a set 
of prints made from them. Of my own negatives I have requested so many 
prints that the photographer is doing them as he finds spare time. *?hen 
they are finished, you will have a full set of everything that I took. 
I fell down on the airplane pictures, underexposed them because I thought 
one had to allow for distant views. Horraal exposure would have been much 
better, at least at the height at which we were flying. The Kodachromes 
were very excellent for the most part, and there are enough for you to 
have duplicates of a number of the scenes. Before I ship these on to 
you, I shall await the national Geographic Magazine’s decision. 
Wasn’t it a mix-up that the Houston had to go to Horfolk? Had 
I known! t in sufficient time I would have driven down with ay family to 
pay you all and the ship a visit. 
I’ll be writing you soon again when my prints come through. 
Sincerely, 
WLS : LMc 
Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator, 
Division of Marine Invertebrates 
