UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
ALL CORRESPONDENCE 
SHOULD BE ADDRESSED 
TO THE SECRETARY 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
Yoiir pleasant and interesting letter of November 8 is just 
received. I am glad, indeed, that you are having such a deli^tful and 
prosperous expedition. You can at least feel that you have eained some 
official courtesies after all the work you put upon the Latin American 
Congress last spring. 
Things are in usual condition here. The exhibit in the West 
Hall is getting on well and Mitman thinks it will be ready by the Regents 
meeting, 
Mr, Moore‘s sister. Miss Jennie, died after a veiy brief illness 
last Saturday. You will recall that she was the main stay up there at an 
the functions, and no.doubt she will be very much missed. 
I saw Mrs. Wetmore at the Bartsches on election night and danced 
with her. Stejneger was there and danced with everybody, as spry as he used 
to be. There was quite a little party, but the election was so one-sided 
that I went home fairly early. It turned out as one might expect, with 
the handicaps of the solid South, the new Federal eii?)loyees. and the re¬ 
lief rolls. 
Willkie has since made a broadcasted speech which is being very 
favorably noticed in the papers. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Was/if/iyton, n^S.A. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 
FREER GALLERY OF ART 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES 
DIVISION OF RADIATION AND 
ORGANISMS 
November 14. 1940. 
