SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
January 5, 1935 
Dear Dr. Schmitts 
Your letters from Guayaquil came last Monday, that is, the 
letters written before the Quito trip. The letter of the 51st, after 
the (^ito trip, has just now been laid on my desk. 
Mr. Bry.mt has already sent a second set of charts to Balboa. 
I am concerned about the Christmas envelopes and your S.A. 
diary. They all went at the same time as the Swett notes and Explorations 
Account. There were three packages: one contained the diary, one con- 
tained the envelopes, and the third contained the Swett papers and JiiXplor. 
Acct. carbon. All went by registered mail. The registry receipts for 
two packages (the envelopes and one of the others) are dated Dec. 3j the 
third registry receipt is dated Dec. 5. I wrote ^^Xmas envelopes^* on one 
of the Dec. 3 receipts, but do not know which of the other two 
receipts represents the diary. Mr. Bryant says the P.O. will be able to 
tell from the weight, for the diary weighed more than the Swett notes, and 
I am asking Mr. Periy today to start a tracer. They surely must be safe 
somewhere; none of them went by air mail. The Christmas envelopes can, 
of course, be used another year. Why won’t the slips you prepared be good? 
This past Christmas was 1954. You said th^ wouldn’t be any good, because 
you said, ’’Christmas ’34.” 
Please keep the first letter I wrote you, for I was foolish 
enough not to make a carbon copy of it. It was that letter which listed 
the three packages. (l mean the first letter I addressed to you at 
Guayaquil; it was dated some time previously to Dec. 4.) 
I doubt if lUl get at the Snodgrass diary, but I»ll try. I 
haven’t done any cataloging yet, but hope to get started on^ it soon. I’ve 
been sort of half sick all this week® Missed only half a day of worx, 
but haven’t worked very hard the rest of the time. I think I’ll be better 
after this week-end and then maybe I can buckle down and work. I guess 
I have a touch of grippe; it is quite prevalent here now. Thank goodness, 
I managed to keep from getting one of the awful head colds which I am 
capable of having. , I’ve stayed in bed a lot and drunk gallons of milk 
and orange juice, and have only a little cold that doesn’t even interfere 
I'^/ith my breathing particularly. 
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