SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Februaiy 11, 1955 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
Your radiogram announcing your arrival at San Diego Friday came 
tliis morning. I guess you will be deluged with mail, because we are all 
rushing to wdte to you. 
I am glad that you are stopping in San Diego because I wanted to 
get some of the enclosed papers into your hands before you reach Los 
Angeles. I'm sending you copies of the various California letters which 
I think we haven’t sent you yet. I haven’t had a reply from Light, but 
you see what a fine reply Fraser made. He must be a very nice man and he 
certainly admires you. I am also enclosing Fisher’s last letter. Your 
suspicion of Eofoid was well founded, you see. I am also sending a little 
note wliich came from Dr. Manter a few days ago. I told him that I was sure 
you are planning to visit him. You’d better write to him as soon as you 
get time. 
I put in a requisition to have my typewriter overhauled (for $15) 
and, stran.ge to say, it was approvedl The company took my mafihine away 
and loaned me one of theirs to use in the meantime, I still don’t have 
mine back, and I feel a?;fully Gripped without it. I can’t make catalog 
cards without it. It’s been gone about ten days now. 
It’s too bad about that Pacific Geographic Magazine. I hope that 
you can get all the pictures you want from Swett in spite of it. I thought 
?^estwood’s letter wjas pretty nice and that you could probably have 
all the space you wanted. 
Before I forget it, a letter came from Mrs. Oldroyd today in reply 
to the request for a birthday letter for Miss Rathbun. She says, ”I shall 
be in New York City next summer and am planning on attending the dinner in 
honor of Miss Rathbun’ s seventy-fifth birthday. I siiall also send a letter 
to be bound in the memorial volume, but shall wait about writing it until 
a little later. I assure you the letter will be there in time for binding.” 
Will you be at Stanford University wliile you’re on the coast? It would 
be nice if you could look in on Mrs. Oldroyd and give her a special invita- 
tion. I sbiall write her, of course, and tell her that you will be glad 
to hear that she will be here in person. 
The birthday letters are coming in in good shape. I have quite a 
thick file of them, and more come in everj^ mail. 
I’m so sorry that the envelopes and dia.ry ha-ve not caught up with 
you yet. I hope they will turn up somewhere. 
