SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D, C. 
September 27, 1940 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
Your wife said that none of your mail has yet caught up to 
you, so I don’t know whether it is worth while writing more or not. Here 
is a letter from Bob Lunz that he asked me to send on to you. He thought 
you might like a letter from him, he said. 
If you ever get my letter about Tewkesbury 1 s notes, don’t 
bother to answer. I got a note from him saying that the manuscript I 
sent him whs all you had, and he was pleased to get it back so promptly. 
I also sent him his film* 
The war looks worse and worse. This morning the pact of 
Italy and Germany with Japan was announced. Poor England has no one 
helping her this time, and one wonders how long she can hold out. If 
she doesn’t, I guess we’ll be holding out by ourselves before long. 
Mail continues to come through from England in spite of everything. 
Some recent papers came from Gurney, and one from Miss Lebour. Also 
a note fronH. Gordon Jackson. 
Mrs. Schmitt will probably -write you about our visit from 
Stanley Brooks. The next time he comes in here asking for a "favor" 
he gets thrown out on his nose If I am here alone. Or, at any rate, 
I shall be too "busy" on a rush job to help him out. Gosh, those 
people have more crust than any one I ever knew. He took me to lunch 
in return for typing a report for him. Before lunch he wanted me to 
have a cocktail in his hotel room with him. With all the cocktail 
places there are in this town, he wanted us to go to his roomlJJH 
I did not. 
You know, Mr. Bryant heard some time back that Pearl Boone 
wa s in a sanitarium, the Implication being because she was not sane. 
Well, just a few days ago she was floating around here. Mrs. Shuman 
saw her and talked to her. 
Kenneth Ellis was here day before yesterday. He had to leave 
at five o’clock, so Mr. Shoemaker was done out of his dinner at the 
Mayflower. 
We’re having lovely weather now, typical Washington autumn, 
crisp and sunny. I guess Florence and I will go for a trip this week- 
end. Vie haven’t been away for quite a while. She moved into an apart- 
ment at last about two weeks ago and is more content to stay home now. 
Gincerel y. 
