American Consular Service, 
Punta sfc-renas, Chile. April 5, 1927. 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
c/o Falkland Islands company, 
Port Stanley. 
Sir; 
With reference to my telegram sent to you through 
the kindness of Mr. F. D. Paton, agent for the Falkland 
Islands uompany on April 22, 1927, and to your telegra- 
phic reply, I beg to inform you that on March 25, 1927, 
I transmitted the following telegram to the Department 
of State; "March 25, Six P.M. - Inform Smithsonian 
Institution Doctor Schmitt is at Port Stanley telegraphs 
I 
forced to steamship end of April requests me to forward 
mail and possible draft inform wife period collect 
eleven dollars." -signed Stevenson. On March 29th 
I received the following telegraphic reply from the 
Department, "March 28, Four P.M. - Pay five hundred 
dollars Doctor Waldo L Schmitt from Smithsonian Institution 
period. 
I therefore have today drawn a draft on the Secretary 
of State to the amount of #500 and deposited the equivalent 
in £ Sterling, £102;17; 7, to the account of Mr. F. D. 
Paton, agent for the Falkland Islands company here, who has 
promised 
