Bartlett cam© down Monday. I had finished up his Explorations 
account Saturday afternoon* so was able to show it to him and got so me 
corrections in spelling, where I hadn’t been able to read his writing. 
He had some 6x7 prints with ids him, which he took over to True, We 
are also getting prints mad© of some 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 negatives he sent 
earlier. He took me to lunch Monday, We went up to O’Donnell’s, lie 
asked me where to go, and 1 thought that most people you take there like 
it* He liked it very much, but complained that the devilled crab wasn’t 
big enough, W« had whiskey sow, devilled crab platter, french fries, 
cold slaw, tea, and ice cream. It was nice, and it was easier keeping 
up a conversation with him than I thought it would be, (Hay bo the whiskey 
sour helped there! ) 
Tour friend Poster called up the other day. I left a not© about 
it for you, lie wanted to know when you would be back and was fishing 
around to see if I Smew anything about the Field Museum having a project 
afloat. I don’t like him nucaj he never wants to give his name and I 
always have ti> fish it out of him, I’m getting so 1 know his voice now, 
it sounds like Stanley Brooks. 
I never heard whether Brooks got more work with the Defense 
Council or not. That was a racket, lie didn’t give a darm about defense, 
just so he got a plum out of it. And the others concerned with so-called 
defense are probably just like him. That’s what makes you so sad with 
our politics, V ery few men have the good of the country at heart j they’re 
only after their out, — — • 
I’m going home a week from Saturday and after that* as you often 
say on the eve of leaving, ,! be damned to you"! I’m anxious to got home 
now* Mams is already planning a big Christmas dinner* 
Sincerely, 
t 1 ■> ' . 
