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March 1, 1926. 
My Dear Mr. KaoManus: 
Yesterday I ran up and spent the day in Mew York 
with Kr. Buck, and this morning as we got on the train, we 
secured the. morning papers from Boston, Few York, ond Phila** 
del phi a, beside* Washington# host of them ran long at cries 
ebout the Expedition, the others interesting paragraphs on 
the front page. There io wen a cartoon of no riding a gir¬ 
affe with a rhinoceros in the Background, waiting to be cap¬ 
tured. Today wo have had a number of calls from newspaper 
people, some inquiries as to whether Mr. Chrysler is coming 
to Washington; a photographer from the Chicago Tribune, and 
of course some applicants for membership in the party. 
Mr. Buck seems very much pleased at the way the 
first announcement has gone over. He has just talked with 
Detroit on the long distance telephone, and they tell him 
that it has beer equally successful in the Mi utile West • 
We plan, - hr. C&rnoohan, Hr* Hawsis and 1* - to 
sail on the 2Oth of this month, on the leviathan. This will 
give ue nine days in London, -share v/e intend to go such out¬ 
fitting as is necessary, and we can sail the 9th of April 
on a Union Castle boat for Dar-os-Sul&ain. Loveriage will 
probably go this won}; in order to have some time visiting 
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XrerytMng seems to be going along very well, fend a. 
after this publicity., you can see that 1 am comitted to catch 
en animal. T wish that you could see the crates now being 
completed in the machine shop, big enough ana strong enough 
to hold adult lions and half grown rhinoceroses. They will 
look very much better, though, when they have the animals in 
them. 
With kindest regards to all the MacHaaus family. 
Very sincerely yours. 
Mr, Yneoaore MacManus, 
C/o Yacht "iBSRSEIF*, 
Hotel Fleetwood Pier, 
Miami Beach, Fla. 
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