October 29, 1938 
The Honorable 
The President 
The White House 
Washington, B. C. 
Bear Mr. President: 
I send you the enclosed letters from Mrs. Wittmer which 
just arrived. 1 do not know how tney got to tae without stamps on 
the envelope, but come they did, and I can offer no explanation. 
You .may be interested in seeing the envelope, which I am sending to 
you, together with the translation of both letters. 
The credit for leaving the foodstuffs is all yours , and 
I shall make that plain to Mrs. Wittmer when t reply to her. I so 
wrote her in the notes that we left behind on the island and which 
T. shoved to Command or Callaghan. It was a good deed, and one that 
I know gave them a great deal of comfort and pleasure. I do not 
quite remember the Sergius of whom Mrs. 'fi timer speaks. I wonder if 
Commander Callaghan recalls him. He may have been on the beach at 
the time we went ashore at Black Beach Road, but ha does not show 
in the few photographs which I took there. 
The 5x7 photographs which I send you are enlargements from 
the Xod&chrcme pictures that I have of the trip. The few smaller 
photographs are contact prints from negatives made with my 3-1 /H x 
1/k camera . I am very happy to give you these photographs for 
your file of the cruise. 
I do hope that you may be able to visit the Museum some 
time. It would be a great feather in our cap to be accorded such 
recognition by you. The mounting of the golden groupers is about 
half completed and the two rock beauties, Holacantbus . are nearly 
finished. The carpenter is getting out plaques upon which to mount 
the fish. I am about half way through with the collection of crus- 
taceans. Among the starfishes and their relatives five new species 
have been discovered. The manuscript describing the new genus sad 
