It would be nice if you could see Light and explain to him about 
the worm situation. You could no doubt arrange with him about the next batch 
he may want. I think he wants more, but his last letter was not verj? definite 
on the subject. 
The -typist is doing better, but she's no great shakes. She finished 
her first job of co^pying Friday and I had her start the Markham article 
today. I told her, "Now, do just what you did with the other one. Write 
down the author’ s name, last name first, then the title of the article, 
then the citation." And for the citation, I marked all the abbreviations 
and made a pencil note of the page numbers for her. Half an hour later I 
came back to see how she was getting on, and she was still struggling with 
the title, so I sat dovai and wrote it off ks. for her. She can copy what’s 
in front of her, but she can’t seem to assemble information, aici or follow 
instmactions that aren’t accompanied by a drawing I 
Miss Eneix is getting along very nicely. I only wish that she 
could "type. Compared to the typist, she ha.s so much better head on her 
shoulders that I think she could do a lot of things for us if she could 
only type. 
Mr. True says that each person gets 25 separates of the Explorations 
Account and that’ s all . He said he absolutely could not stretch it. 
Mr. Bryant or Mrs. Schmitt wall no doubt tell you that Dr. David 
White died last Wednesday night. He had been at work that day and died in 
his sleep that night. He was buried Saturday afternoon. 
You remember that back in October Dr. Bro-wn had a letter from 
Mrs. Stanley T. Brooks about coming down here to study some of has specimens 
and brine- hers along? It -oetered out that time, and she didn’t come. About 
two or three weeks ago she wrote again and said that she had gotten a grant 
from the Geological Society of America (she got $?5 I happen to knoTv, but 
she didn^t teH me) and she wanted to come down this month* She asked him 
if he could suggest some ’^cheap but respectable ” place v/here she could stay* 
He showed me the letter and asked me if I could suggest any place, but I 
couldn’t* All the boarding houses I know of are full, and anyway I don’t 
know much about placed to stay here* Finally, he said, ”lell, could you take 
her in ? 7 ith you for the time she’ll be here? We both thought she’d be 
lH*e about a week or not over ten days* I thought it over, and decided that 
since I knew something about her from you and also from Ralph Eai^ it wouldn’t 
be like taking in a stranger, and it would keep her expenses down as low as 
anything she could do* 
I wrote her and invited her to stay with me for har share of the 
groceiy bills and she accepted by return mail I I asked her to let me know 
when she was coming, and v/hen I had heard nothing from her last Friday I 
thought she surely wouldn’t come until over the vreek end* But when I got 
to the office Saturday morning I got a telegrami saying she was coming that 
nightl Did I scurry home that afternoon ajtid clean house and do some bakingi 
I had told Mrs. Schmitt a few days ago that she was coming, and I called 
her again Saturday to tell her that Mrs. Brooks was coming that night* 
Mrs. Schmi&t and Barbara came in about three o’clock yesterday afternoon 
and took us riding and then home to your house for supper* It was awfully 
nice, and such good things to eat I Barbara is getting to be a most delightful 
