SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
March 20 » 1939 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
Mr, Kirk broiight yottr letter in from Ferry' g office about noon 
after I had mailed the one I wrote this morning. Anything that comes into 
Ferry's of fice is treated like second-class mail and you may get it today 
and you might get it tomorrow or next week! 
Here are your labels addressed to the Despatch Agent. I put 
in some of both sizes. Hope there are enough. 
I called Sari Johnston about the Kodachrome strips. He says 
that Hastraan will not begin the service of mounting the films until the 
first of April, so he is unable to tell you what they would do if there 
are more than IS on a strip. He said he has been wondering about it him- 
self, and thinks the only way to learn is to try a strip of more than 18 
exposures on them some time. He doesn't think the extra ones would be 
discarded, but they might not be mounted. 
Mrs. Wendell Chapman just called on the telphone. She was 
much interested to know that you were joining Hancock and asked me to give 
you hers and her husband's kindest regards. They are in town for a few 
days she said, and would like to see you if you were here. 
I went through yoxir letter carefully and made a 3^5" card for 
each job you listed for me. I think, in that way, that T did not miss any 
and I will get them off as fast as I can, I am trying to get off the 
invoices of purtvnid and xanthid crabs to Miss Leene and Miss Buitendijk, 
and some barnacles to Cornwall, 
The letter I wrote this morning is addressed to the boat, so 
you will get it after you get this. 
Can't think of anything more to write. Don't forget that you 
are on a diet f'^om now on,' 
Sincerely, 
I'm glad you wrote you're letter so “pretty.*' It wasn't very 
hard to read. 
