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September 18, 1937 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore 
National Museum 
Washington,D. C. 
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Dear Dr. wetmore: 
I herewith quote you letter received from the Red "D" Line, 
showing reservations, diagram, etc. 
"We write in acknowledgement of your letter of September 16th and 
your telegram of the 17 received simultaneously this morning. We are 
very happy to offer to you under option until Sept. 29 for considera¬ 
tion by Dr.Alexander Wetmore, a Bed in Cabin #43 on the sailing of 
our SS "Caracas" from New York to La Cuaira u ctober 14. We offer this 
Bed to Dr. Wetmore at a price of #140.00 plus #5.00 tax but we do not 
guarantee sole occupancy of the room. The Cabin, you will note from 
the enclosed plan, is practically a single cabin with a connecting 
shower and toilet and outside on the main deck. We think it a very 
attractive one and we don*t believe that we shall require a place 
another passenger in this uabin with Dr. Wetmore. Nevertheless, the 
quotation we have made is on the basis of double occupancy of the room. 
Returning on the SS"Caracas" from La u-uaira to New York on Nov. 25, 
we cannot offer a definite reservation of a particular room. North¬ 
bound allotments have been released to our Caracas Agency. If it is 
definite and certain that Dr. Wetmore requires this particular sail¬ 
ing and is not at all likely to change his date, we shall, upon 
your further request, obtain by airmail the definite room reservation. 
For this northbound sailing we shall have to quote one and one half 
minimum fares in order to secure single occupancy of a particular room. 
The "Caracas" you will note has no single cabin. On this basis we quote 
618 Bs. for the northbound fare. 
For a round-trip booking we allow a discount of 10% so that, figuring 
3 Bs. equal to #1. - we can quote you a total round-trip fare of 
#311.40 plus #5.00 U.B.Tax. Will you please notify us before Sept. 29t 
whether reservations are definitely to be made, if so, we shall require 
the payment by that date." 
Very truly yours, 
