I thought I would stay tomorrow afternoon ( Saturday) to- "work on it, when I 
would be by says elf and hare no interruptions. However, I would rather go 
to lunch with Mr, Morgan! 
Bartlett’s paper worries ae, I wish you wore here to help me pad 
it out. True says he oan have either two. or three pages of text, and two 
or. three pages : of pictures to go with it, Well, frsa the notes ,1 .have, I am 
afraid £ cannot possibly qtjHfowi squeeze out more than two pages of text, 
which will out him down to only four pictures* I shall get it in shape as 
best I oan this week-end. Bartlett is coining to town .Monday end will be 
down to see no . If I find that 800 words (two pp* of text) is all I can 
got out of it, I will try to dig some aors out of him when I aoo Ida to 
make 600 more. Surely he om toll me about some interesting incident that 
is worth talking about and will fill up soao"moFo space. True says you are 
always anxious to give him the three pages of pictures and if we do that 
we must fill three pages of text. 
hiss Pitch called Moloney yesterday (how size has his homo telephone 
number is a mystery hr. Shoemaker and I would like to know more about! ) to 
tell him that Miss Wakefield had died in Panan and they are bringing her has®* 
7/hen Mrs, Schmitt called she said some girl had called her yesterday to t ©11 
her the sane time, so I suppose hiss Pitch called your house thinking she would 
get you. Of course, Mrs, dcluxitt didn’t know Miss .’akefield, but she asked 
Miss Pitch if she had been ill long, and she said no, it was quite sudden. 
Poor girl, she had so little reserve to go on if she got anything wrong kith 
her, I feel sorry to think she got so little out of her short life. She 
was really a nice girl, but was floundering around terribly, I suppose, she 
was another who shouldn’t have tried living in the tropics, 
Mr, Maloney certainly has perked up a lot# He even answers the 
telephone better than he. used to, though lie won’t make a call if he cm get 
me to do it for him* I don’t think he lias changed his way of living such, 
but he is much more like a normal human being. 
Mr. Shoemaker is working on the Zimmer paper, believe it or not! 
He runs to me with about every other sentence, so 1 really am not sure 
whether it is lie or I who is working on it! At any rate, we are looking 
at it, but I can’t guarantee the results. 
I hop© to leave for home two weeks from tomorrow, Saturday, December 
7th* I thought why should I wait for the 11th, why not get going that Satur- 
day afternoon, and so I shall do so if possible* I thought that for once 
in ray life I could get away without rushing ray head off beforehand, if you 
were not |tere, but I find myself mired down in the usual rush of innumerable 
things to do and arrange for before I go, I shall be back about the 13th 
of January, as I wrote you earlier, and maybe before if it is terribly cold 
at horn® and I get bored with myself. 
I hop© you will not be disappointed in my sins of commission and 
omission during your absence, I haven’t accomplished os ran oh as I set out 
to do, but I have done a few odds and ends, some of which are quite useful, 
I indexed all the invoices from the very beginning, and you have no idea 
how useful it is already. It is a great help in looking up things. I 
