July 20 , 1955 
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bredin 
Greenville, Delaware 
Dear Bruce and Mrs. Gredin: 
Each day I have been wanting to write you but I never seeia to be 
able to,~-not that I couldn't write a line but I just couldn't write 
the kind of letter that I felt you deserved. I wanted to do more than 
pen you a mere announceraent of our return. Yet when, at this long 
last, I can find the time for it I am ashamed that it is so late and 
30 little. 
I am gradually putting ny notes in shape for a narrative account 
of the expedition for publication by the Snithsonlan in what I hope 
will be a revival of their earlier series entitled, ‘’Exploration and 
Field Work for the 3'aithsonian Institution.” Regrettably this was 
discontinued with the war when it was decided that the trips that some 
of us undertook for the State Department and others for the Department 
of Defence would not be published, at that time at least. Bart of lay 
difficulty in getting started on a letter was the press of things here 
at home. First, getting out the Annual Report of the Department of 
Zoology. True enough, it should not have been left for me but I got 
back just before it was due and was handed the job. It was turned in 
on the l5th, I’m hapiy to say. With it were a nuiijer of personnel 
problems also saved for my attention. 
I am still bogged down with letters. Aside froa routine ausl 
official there are quite a number that have to be ^^^itten back to the 
Congo folks and to Belgium also, especially the Isastitute of laticnal 
Parks and the pj'esident ttereof. Dr. Victor van Straelen, wi:o, with 
his helpful letters, smoothed our way and secured privileges oi’dinarily 
not given out for photographing and collecting in the National Parks. 
Wst 3»I1 came through in excellent sh^ae although each one of us 
had a brief bout with diarrhea, to which most foreign travelers succumb 
at one time or another. Hera I iiave special reference to Italy where 
most all By friends have iad a little unpleasantness the first time 
they visited that oountiy. Today, however, the anti-bio tics give 
wonderful results and on this Congo expedition we used Acronycin with 
such excellent results that we were only temporarily inconvenienced. 
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