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Acan*t visualize how this effusion of mine will look typed, and would that 
I could so as to help boil it down* The fewer words in which we can get 
the idea to him the better. The less said the less there will be to fight 
about afterward, but as more important people have always done, he should 
\ request permission to come bacK, at least so it strikes me at this end, 
\and did before I left Washington. Circumstances may have altered the case 
since, so I shall have to lean on your good gx judgment. 
What can I write in more cheerful vein? Had my picture taken 
about six ‘times today. Had my hair clipped right down to skull leve, 
that's why, and it about broke up the meeting. Let's hope it will grow 
again. I've been taken for Ghandi alreacbr. I'm hoping to get a print or 
two to send along, but it may take four weeks to get them. 
A private yacht has just pmt in over at the fort, so mail may 
go any minute, and I hasten to close this. There is little else to say. 
I was glad to hear from Johnson. 
If this goes through in time, I am wondering if I can put you 
to a lot of trouble. Wonder if it would be possible to borrow from the 
War. Dept, through the Chief Corrdinator the filters he recommends, if not 
all three, any one, the order of preference being: 
1. Wratten and Wratten (Eastman) 
Aero~l filter. 
2. Wratten and Wratten* (Eastman) . "A" No. 26 filter 
3. Wratten & Wratten (Eastman) kero-2 filter. 
I want to use them in connection with a Standard, 35 mm. De Vry 
camera and if in sheets (one piece of glass) should not be over 4, or at 
‘ most 6, inches over all in either direction, as otherwise I could not use 
I them in my box. They are filters used in aeroplane photography and so 
I shoxild be easy to borrow direct (or through coordinator) from Aviation 
\ Service of either army or navy. 
I've put on some comments for Van Hyning. 
So here goes with my best wishes and best thanks for all the 
trouble you have or may take in my behalf while I am down here. If I can 
answer any other questions, shoot them along. I hope I*ve replied to 
everything. 
Sincerely, 
W. L. Schmitt. 
