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Saturday, March 6, 1937 
Dmir Dr. Vatmore: 
Various delays bar® cropped up in what for the ship Is its 
shake-down cruise, chiefly engine trouble. Just now we are waiting far 
gone spare engine parts and a new get of batteries. These will hold ua 
in Palm Beach until "hurt? day morning. Meanwhile, to insure a quick get- 
away from Miami, the captain mid I will be motoring down to Miami on 
Monday — it’s .lust miles one my— to get everything ready for a quick 
pick up. We shall also be getting a ctout 16-foot skiff as a work and 
landing boat for the collectors. 
Mr. Hartford is not adverse to reasonable publicity and feels 
that the newspapers, if tltey ask for information, should be given some- 
thing. It would not be amiss to send a note to Science and to the !*useuro 
Journal, and 2 would also like a copy sent the Kxplorere Club for their 
little journal. Also, I would like Henry to put something together for 
the Star. He probably has access to files of the Charleston papers. One 
of them took a oretty good interior of the ward, room which could be 
borrowed, and the Geographic or some news aerv5.ee could supply him or 
the Star with a picture of the ship under sail. X think it would be 
nice if the Star would reproduce that “Life 1 * picture of the ship under 
full sail in their rotogravure section, perhaps full page si:ie, stating 
that it is cm the 8»i thsoninn-Hartford Expedition to the West Indies. 
The Charleston papers have it that I am scientific director of the Ex- 
pedition of which Mr. Hartford is sponsor and lender. 
Hartford was much pleased with the idea of the labels we had 
printed. He passed one over to his wife at the dinner table last night. 
“They seemed to like the idea very much that what they should get should 
be so ticketed, and bad me explain the Aca. Ho. to them. The Hartfords 
have a couple of house guests and so wanted to arrange rooms at the Ever- 
glades Hub for us, but I elected to stay aboard. Except yesterday, when 
we hod lunch at the house, we shall be taking only our dinners there. 
They had asked us for all meals, and have put a car at our disposal. 
They have a most beautiful new home just recently acquired as 
a sort of base of operations for Hartford's feat Indian cruises . He is 
much interested in pirate lore and Ms wife speaks o*" spending this cosing 
summer in England gathering information on them in their original home 
ports. Heyward, the writer, 0 rig X Tiv«X ly got him started on that tack, 
hut, withal, he is interested in the scientific angles of the cruise, and 
is impressed, with the prestige it will give the ship and her goings and 
codings® That personal visit he had with you was one of the hast things 
that could have happened® 
