do ot have a copy of the letter In which 1 said t ris. I would give anything 
for a thereof ax co >y of that letter, as well as of the two 1 wrote him •••Lout 
s we packed our gear. In the beginning I kept no 
copies of rry letters to him oxen. quoted in part Lch spelled 
out the S ilthsonian sti relations. (As silly as this remark may sounu, I 
itj l shall lad to % r copy-machine copies of the 
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When i first mr: ik oned Amos to you I had only known hi:., as a successful 
otographer of natura] >z i >rae papers about them, 
and as editor of that attractive Estuarine . u lie tin, but had had but little 
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impression. 1 now feel tliaTTuTTs about kie most devious, evasive, dc 
or :ob:.leu : yook-talkur I have ever encountered. It was when I became aware 
of these traits that I chan jed ray mind about lettin ; him have the films for 
■roe.se in . van could glance 
This reluctance of Auos to lot ;s at lea. t examine call of the film is 
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askod to mail back the exposed film for processing and delivery to a personal 
friend of his here in Washington so that exposures and camera behavior could 
request was (granted i ka specific stimulation t’ at, after 
his fri-.-nd had looke,. at it, the film was to be turned over to the kmithsonian 
But of the ©a s s jers turned over to the Museum. e. ms 
friend was a stud by my secretary for the film he denied having received any. 
It was on „.\ who* the Museum put the Post Office Department inspectors on the 
trail of that film that we ’were able to get an acknowledgment of its receipt, 
but, even at that, it was some weeks after I ot back to Washington from 
Africa that Sexton’s i those early films to the Museum, 
naturally, then I learned of the difficulty in a letter from the office, 1 
refused to let him send any more film to his friend , and had it addressed 
to the Museum direct for processing. 
Sow I find myself involved in much the same situation again. All of 
the processed films .. re sent bach to Amos on June 30 for identify In , eat.a- 
ich ••work’.* he asked for Aahonth’s tine. 
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pictures of marine life by Tom, Amos sent back for Tom* s a sc (and nine for 
a lecture before the Fossils Club) loss than half of what he ex ;osed. Is he 
going to rob him of the .chance to publish any o, e 
afraid 
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u tides or )hoto,;mohs he is hold in out? This Institution* as well as this 
former number of its staff, does not operate that way! 
