H. H. BARTLETT 
C. D. LA RUE 
B. M. DAVIS 
E. B. MAINS 
W. R. TAYLOR 
D. V. BAXTER 
J. H. EHLERS 
W. W. TUPPER 
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 
ANN ARBOR 
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY 
24 November 1933 
F. G. GUSTAFSON 
L. E. WEHMEYER 
C. A. ARNOLD 
K. L. JONES 
W. C. STEERE 
De8.r Dr. Schmitt: 
Follov/ing your good example^ I write tv/o letters. This time 
your epistle got here on a reasonable day of the week. Apparently last time 
it came on Saturday^ and I aid not get it until Monaay:: hov/ever, I could not 
have gotten any action on it before, euiyway. I have not actually received 
the written permission to go, but of course I could not make formal application 
in aavance of the invitation^ All concernea have approved in aava.nca; the only 
exception is the Board of Regents, which meets on the 1st December j tney could 
reverse. .the Presidents but are hardly likely to do so. 
Your financial prospectus is amusingly cheerful; in these lean times 
more the latter. The University will transport me to tne coast, praise be. 
My entire collecting TJardrcbe is, ..unfortunately, stored at Woods Hole; I will 
have to provide a duplicate; my suiumer attire is tnere, too. Such little 
things are easily adjusted. I will try to find out tomorrow or Monaay about 
bulk and weight of equipment. My lists are made out, but I do not knov/ what 
containers I v/ill use. Now pl ease, immediately iiiform me about necessity f or 
a Passport, and what countries should visa it. Remember, I aia not a Federal 
employ^; ^ill that signify? 
I v/ill have local credentials, of course. 
I would like to go West early enough to confer with tne phycoiogists 
there on a few matters altogether apart from this enterprise, and to attend the 
meetings at Pacific Grove. If perraitted, I may meet you at some place on the 
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oast. I will write to you an a couple of days about details. 
Gordialiy/ 
