December 21, 1943. 
Chairman, local Board 
Selective Service, 
Coart House, 
Fairfax, Virginia. 
Bear Sirs 
Shortly after the middle of Jamary, 1944 it is 
necessary for me to go on an official mission to points in 
Central America in connection with some work of the liar De¬ 
partment. 
I need to take with a® as assistant for this work. Dr. 
Joseph P. E. Morrison, Order Ho. 3062, who is employed as an 
assistant curator in the U. S. national Museum under the 
Smithsonian Institution. The trip is an official one and win 
require not more than four and one half months for its com¬ 
pletion. 
I beg to ask your cooperation in giving Dr. Morrison the 
necessary permission to bo absent from the United States for the 
period, indicated. X may add that he is the only assistant 
available to is* here at the present time with the proper Quali¬ 
fications for the work in hand. I am 
Very truly yours, 
A. Vietaore, 
assistant Secretary. 
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