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February 9, 1939 
Mr# Carlos Zinser L. 
Calls de Copenhague Wo* 26 
Mexico, F. 
Mexico 
My dear Carlos* 
lour airmail letter of February 2 with the permit enclosed is safely 
at hand and I greatly appreciate your prompt courtesy in sending me these 
papers. My plans for costing to Mexico are going forward rapidly and I 
expect to leave Washington now on February 25# I will got the special 
train called "The City of Mexico* that leaves St. Louis on February 26 
and shall look forward to a talk with you in Mexico City on March 1. 
It has been very kind of you to notify your agent In Nuevo Laredo 
and also in Veracruz that I am coming as it will be of definite assistance 
to me to have them thus informed* 
I expect to stay in Mexico City only a day or so as I wish to get 
down into Veracruz as soon as possible. Mr. Franklin Fisher of the 
National Geographic society is coming down with me and will spend a few 
days with me in Veracruz and then return home. 1 shall look you up when 
I reach Mexico City. 
Our winter here so far has been pleasant and with not too natch cold 
weather. We had snow a week ago but a heavy rain washed it all away and 
the ground now is bare. 
I have been out regularly looking for birds both at Plummers Island 
and down along the Chesapeake Bay, Dr. Gabrielson end I spent one day 
at the Patuxent lid Life Reservation. 
Sy the way, you may remember Dr. Moreno of Cuba who was with us when 
we went on the excursion for the American Ornithologists 1 Union. He has 
just sent me an account of the meetings that has been published in Cuba, 
a copy of which I am sending you herewith. 
I am looking forward with keen Interest to my first field work in 
Mexico where I am sure I shall find many wonderful birds. I am glad to 
know that matters are progressing so that you are coming again to the 
