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Bredin, Bnjce 
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Dear Bruce, and Mrs, 
I shall be getting final figures on the trip in Africa and transportation 
to and frcan tomorrow inorningj was by to hasten matters this morning. Shall 
write again tomorrow but have been stymied by many things including that 2 
wks in California, 
Seston has kept you posted on “shots'*. The type of travel film he mentions 
is in the minds of all of us and will be worked out well in advance of our 
leaving. We all want your advice and suggestions; hope to title it "Congo 
Low Life" because we shall be taking so much of it properly magnified. It 
will be something neither the average traveller or explorer in Africa,<^ever sees. 
Along with it all we shall be getting into a national park closed to ordinary 
visitors by special government pennission, and shall stop in guest houses of 
several of the Belgian research Laboratories, also by advance pennission. 
We shall also be getting movies of natives and of the striking wild life, and 
of the mother of civilization Egypt on the way. The movie as you suggested 
in the first place and as Sexton sees it too will be a most worthwhile feature 
of the entire exptJdition. I'm sending this along today, perliaps only a day 
ahead of the estimates because I know you are as anxious as are we all to get 
down to "brass tacks" and definite figures and dates. This much we do know 
freighter ship leaves N.Y. Mar. 26 arrives in Matadi 9 or lOthj we should be in 
Leopoldville by the 11th (or 12th?), Dr. Miariion has had to drop out. Had two 
resignations frcro his faculty, but we have his collaborator and coworker 
knows mites and ticks as well as Itiarton ready to take his place. The Dept, of 
Agriculture vAiere he is ©nployed as entcmiologist , has indicated that they will 
make him available when wanted. 
Dr. Sexton has raised a point that I may as well mention here 
as in tomorrow's letter. Instead of looking for a photographic assistant in 
Africa that we use his son also an experienced photographer with the Anny's 
medical research unit at Walter Reed Hospital here in town. Sexton will pay 
his son's transportation round trip to Africa, and once there we can take him 
along for expenses of travel (auto & interior plane) subsistence and lodging. 
I had not anticipated this, but I can recommend it heartily. Hiring assistants 
on the ground in Leo|X)ldviile we had planned for anyway and if young Sextto is 
on the ground, it's better to hire a white instead of a black assistant. The 
Army, as does the Snithsonian with us and Agriculture with Baker, would take 
care of his pay or salary. 
I hope you will approve, but we shall leave that open until we see how 
the definitive estimate stacks up tomorrow. 
Baker can accompany us on the freighter which Wharton was unable to do. 
You will find Fd Raker as congenial and as pleasant a travelling companion 
as Wharton. 
Have this day paid down by S.I. check |1900 covering four steamship 
passages, 2 double rooms, New York to Matadi, leaving Mar. 26. 
