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Filed: Bel. Con. Court, Letters 
Dr. James P. Chapin 
October 28, 1955 
Air Mail 
Dr. James P. Chapin 
Boite Postal 
217 Bukavti 
Belgian Congo 
Dear Dr. and Mrs. Chapin t 
I know you think that I must have died on the way hcane. Frankly, 
so far as ujy friends are concerned, I am almost in that condition. If 
I did not know it before I know it now,— the most strenuous part of 
any expedition canes on one’s return home. I am just bogged down with 
a thousand things that need to be done to wind up our affairs,— pictures, 
movies, letters, narrative and what-not. In the course of all this I 
have not been unmindful of the several flash-lights Buddy Sexrton took 
of you before your fireplace. There are three Eolliflex and two l*x5'sj 
I thought there were tharee of the latter also, but one negative (perhaps 
faulty) was not returned to me after developing. May you find among 
these negatives the one you wanted for a Christinas card. Can you have 
such photo-cards made in the Congo? Or would you like me to make 
arrangements here for them? Bhclosed is a price list received in the 
mail this very day and there is another which I obtained locally, 
I owe you a letter of more timn just thanks. I cannot begin to 
tell you how much you helped us, both personally and with written 
suggestions, as well as sponsorsMp and introductions in and about 
Bukavu and Wlro. Mien are you going to give me a chance to return 
a few favors here in town and when ai^e you going to write up all those 
wonderful obsenrations on the birds that you showed and told us about? 
I am still busy with the National Geographic Society idiich has 
gone over the movie films for the first time. They put aside the 
unsuitable material and turned the rest back to me to piece together 
a reasonable sequence. They will give this a final editing, whether 
used for the lecture program or not. There were some quirks for we 
had a shocking lot of dogged film. It could be that one of the two 
movie caneras was very faulty but we lost some wonderful material. 
It rather cramps my style in putting out a pictorial narrative. 
Fortunately the films we took of you are good but I have not yet i*un 
through the sound track to see how it all will fit together. We are 
