Chapin, James C. 
Filed: Belgian Congo 
January 2 I 4 , 1955 
Dr. James C. Chapin 
Boite postal " ' 
217 ^kavu 
Belgian Congo 
Air Mail 
Dear_Dr. Chapin; 
lour two letters trere certainly a breath of fresh air in 
the fog in which I found myself before their arrival. I am 
ashamed that I have not acknowledged either before this but 
I have been rushed with many things and even this afternoon 
must leave for a two weeks business trip to California, Me 
are definitely coming your way and are allowing time to call 
upon you at your farm idiile we are in Bukavu. 
Ibe present sailing of the Belgian-African Line from 
New York will be March 26. Me should be aboard at that time 
and thirty-ei^t days later sJiould turn up in Bukavu. This 
sounds like a long time and to set your mind at ease as to 
what we will be doing meantime, I am enclosing a copy of our 
itinerary as at present planned. 
We are also asking, through the AAA, for Eric 'Riornton’s 
services as guide from Stanleyville on to Costerraansville 
(Bukavu). From Juba we expect to go down the Nile by boat. 
I have tried to cut the day* s travel as low as is consistent 
witn covering the distances fron Stanleyville to Bukavu. 
I shall be back hare on the 7th of February and if you 
are free to make any furttier suggestions I will be glad to 
follow them, li^en it comes to Congo travel we bere in Vlashington 
are mere babes in the woods. I am sending a copy of the itinerary 
to Ite*. Vercammen-Grandjean, too, and moreover I will write you 
again when I return frcan California. 
Sincerely yours. 
Enc, 
M.S : vb 
Waldo L . Sclimitt 
Head Curator 
Dept, of Zoology 
