Norfolk Downs, 
Mas 3 . 
37.ii.19S6. 
Dear Mann, , | 
Many thanks for youra of 23.ii. to hand and contents 
noted. 
Then when I get your wire I will book my (our) passages 
by some boat sailing on the 6th. and you will follow on 30th. 
March. 
Don‘t quite see from your third paragraph how you will 
sail from New York on 30th. spend nine day3 in England and sail 
from Southampton on 29th. No doubt it can be done but it is . 
certainly hustling some! 
That's a good idea to store the heavy stiff at Southampton 
I will do the 3ame with the two boxes of collecting equipment that 
I am taking along. 
Dr. Barbour writes that hsmx the Museum will pay my 
salary on whole trip and get all vertebrates collected, I pointed 
out that we are out for livestock primarily so that to avoid, any 
disappointment you offered to pay it etc. etc. 
I have not been awarded the Milton Grant of $ 6,000 so. 
though it is intimated that the Museum will defray my expenses if 
I remain on collecting after your expedition is finished it looks 
as if my wife won't be able to join me. 
Good news yesterday, a letter from one of my old collectors 
saying that he and his two brothers will place themselves at my 
disposal on arrival and relinquish their present govt. job. "No need 
to go out hunting butterflies in the bush any more" writes Nikola, 
"I can now trap them with my own braina." Pretty rich. 
Send the list along. 
I have just been tearing up piles of old papers^etc. prior 
to departure and came across the enclosed caroon copies of 
newspaper articles I wrote back in 193G, perhaps they might interest 
Carnochan or Charlton, if not throw them away as I was on the point 
of doing. , J 
Send the list along as soon as you like and I will do my 
best. 
Can think of nothing more at the moment. 
Yours sincerely. 
