March 23, 1S39 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: ■ 
Your variouB letters arrired yesterday and we have been 
scurrying around collecting the things you want, Mr. Bryant will write 
you as soon as everything is at hand— bill of lading, statement from 
Group Health (which came this morning), statement from Public Health 
(which I guess you already have, but they are sending over another), 
and the good conduct statement from the Police Force. 
Paul Young called up this morning. When he learned that you 
had already gone, he wished me to tell you that he called and to give 
you his best wishes, etc., etc. He said he wais glad to hear my voice 
again and I thought for a moment that he was going to inquire as to the 
state of my soul, but he didn’t*. He said they would leave a week from 
Saturday, going first to Colombia, then to Ecuador, 
Mrs. Cheney got her job in Pennsylvania, tho\igh at Harrisburg 
instead of Philade.lphia, as she had hoped. However, she is very happy 
about it, and has gone to Harrisburg today. She stayed here one day 
after she got the notice, in order to put our things in shape for leav- 
ing, which was very nice of her. 
In your letter asking for health certificate and good conduct 
certificate you said you were enclosing old’ ones. You did not enclose 
them. I hope that you have them safe somewhere. I looked carefully in 
the envelopes to be sure that there were no enclosures. 
Mrs. Schmitt called today. She said she was writing you^in 
care of the Postmaster at Balboa. - 
Mr, Bryant is addressing his letter to you at Cristobal so that 
you will get the bill of lading when you come off the ship. He says 
that when your outfit was consigned the Balboa, the original bill of 
lading- should carry it thro-ugh to that destination. 
I haven’t had any time on my hands yet, what with all the 
jobs I saved up to do in your absence, the jobs you keep giving me to 
do by letter, and all the things Mr^, Shoemaker has Suddenly scraped 
up. I got off the Xanthid crabs to Boschma for Miss Buitendijk, some 
more Portunids to Miss Leene, and the Atlantic barnacles to Cornwall, 
as well as the leeches to Marvin Meyer. (l mean to say I got the in- 
voices off; they were a two days’ job and more.) Just today I answered 
all the correspondence that has piled up since you left. 
Mr. Graf approved all the requisitions for photographing ex- 
cept the 88 pages of text of the Lucas paper in the Exploration to Algiers 
He said it would cost $15 and he would like to let it go for a while; we 
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