Miss Moodey was sick for a few days and it was reported that 
she had had a stroke. Vflien the story was investigated, however, it 
developed that she had gone to a movie alone one afternoon at 4: SO and 
had fainted in the theater. Since she was unknoywi, she was of course 
ruslied up to Snergency, but she went home that evening, and stayed out 
a few days to rest. She is back now, and I believe Miss Kathbun has 
seen her. 
Mr. Bean was just in here walking the floor and fussing 
about something or other. Ginsberg works over here in the Fish 
Dept, quite a bit now, and I guess Mr, Bean can't forgive the 
Institution for allovri.ng "that Jew" in here. Mr. Ginsberg comes in 
here frequently to consult Fish Hawk station records. He seems to 
be very quiet and polite; my chief objection to him is that he wears 
a bright red necktie on an equally bright pink shirt. 
Mr. Richards vispote me that he thought he had had a very 
successful trip to Cuba. He thought he would come dom soon to con- 
suit some District records if he could be sure that F.B. would still 
be away. I guess there is no doubt that the latter will be away for 
some weeks yet. The Zoology 'Dept* gaag at G.W. got a card from him 
saying that his was the ^*most congenial” trip he had ever had anywhere 
vdth anybody. VVhen Ralph Bailey told me that^ I said ”Yeah, three 
women aboard.” Some friends of Mr. Johnson’s — man, wife, and two 
daughters around eighteen — are with the Carolin e. 
Ralph Bailey comes around every once in a v/hile. I’ll show 
him to you when you get back. When I told Mr. Shoemaker about him, 
he said, ”Humph, you seem to make a speciality of Dr. Bartsch’s assistants. 
V/as that nice? 
You got a letter from Torsten Gislen in Sweden, enclosing a 
lot of the qquarium pictures thaifyou astced him for. He said that you 
had his permission to use them in cUiy way you wished. I wrote him a 
note of thcunks, and told him you would write personally upon your return. 
I suppose you are enjoying beautiful weather. We are having 
a rotten winter. It rains every other day regularly. It has been quite 
cold, too, and we have had a lot of snow. The last snow is about two 
weeKS old, but hasn’t all gone off yet, so you can see that it hasn’t 
been very warm around here. 
I haven’t been to Richmond yet, but I expect to go one of these 
days. Mr. .Shoemaker said I couldn’t take leave, and I said I’d talie 
French leave if I couldn’t get any other kind. We seem to be able to 
do a lot of quarreling when you are away. You’ll need to come back and 
settle the office force pretty soon! We’ve all had colds, and our 
dispositions haven’t been very sweet as a result. 
We’ll be ^lad when you’re back. 
Sincerely, 
