December 20 , 1940* 
Dr. Juvenal Valerio Rodriguez, 
Director, Mueeo Nacional, 
San Jose, Costa Rica* 
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Dear Dr. Valerioj 
My Journey home was pleasant and enjoyable 
after telling you goodbye on the dock at Puerto Limon. Our 
ship stopped brieilyin Puerto Barrios and again in Havana. 
There I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. Carlos de la Torre, 
Dr. Abelardo Moreno and others of ray friends who are perhaps 
knovrti to you tiirough their attendance at the Eighth American 
Scientific Congress last May* I came to New York to find cold 
weather but after a day was adjusted to the change, 
I do not know how to thank you enough for your 
kind attention to me during my pleasant Journey in your country. 
I am deeply appreciative of all your help and shall treasure 
always ray memories of our qpsociation. My collections are ex¬ 
cellent and I have many inteiwsting notes to print later. I 
shall hope to have them in order for publication as a contribution 
to ornithology in Costa Rica, I enjoyed especially my visits to 
your National Museum and ray acquaintance with the men who are work¬ 
ing so actively with you to develop your work, I feel that I 
have many friends now in San Josd^ with you as the foremost among 
them, 
I came to my office to find it necessary at once 
to take up the work concerned with our annual appropriations for 
next year. This has absorbed all of my time to the present, and 
it is only now that I am taking up other matters, 
I have had opportunity to make some inquiry about 
the possibility of a grant for Seguia to enable him to come to 
this country, I am happy to say that this matter seems to have 
been favorably received and I am now preparing a memorandum re¬ 
garding it. It may be well, however, not to mention this at 
