SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 
November 19, 1936. 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 
c/o Consulado de Los Est&dos Unidos del Norte, 
Guatemala City, Guatemala. '■ 
Dear Doctor Wetmore: 
This morning we just received a request for justifica¬ 
tions for our 1936 appropriations,to be submitted to the 
Committee before December 1st. There apparently will be no 
great difficulty in preparing these. I will draw up a rough 
draft and ask the Secretary to call Harry Dorsey back from 
his vacation for one day to assist in the editing. We will 
then mimeograph and send them up. The request came this 
year via telephone and I asked Mr. Perkins to call back to be 
sure as to the number of supporting statements they wanted and 
also to tell them that you had tentatively arranged with Mr. 
Woodrum so that we would not be called until about the 15th 
since you would be absent in the field until that time. Mr. 
Orr, the clerk, said he thought the 15th would be very satis¬ 
factory; that he was glad to have this suggestion so that it 
would assist him in arranging the schedule. I see no reason 
at all why such an arrangement can not be made since they will 
not be anywhere near through the hearings by the 15th and we 
can be heard out of order. 
Everything is going nicely. You will probably be 
interested to know that General Pershing’s secretary asked Mr. 
Belote to get in touch with them to look over some of the 
General’s historic war materials, since the chances were that 
he would be glad to turn over those we desired to the Museum. 
I hope this rumor turns out to be correct since this would be 
the greatest windfall we have had in sometime. 
Trusting everything is going well with you, I am 
Sincerely yours. 
jeg-s 
