September 16, 1936 . 
Mr. J. H. Kempton, 
c/o U. S* Field Station, 
Sacaton, Arizona. 
Dear Kempton: 
Your journal of your trip in Guatemala of last 
fall has not only been useful but highly interesting, 
and I have enjoyed the favor very much indeed. From 
it I have secured much useful information for my coming 
trip. I will keep the book here in my office until 
you return in order to make sure that it will not be 
mislaid. 
Pop has written me most enthusiastically and has 
put his house in Antigua at my disposal for a base during 
my work in Guatemala. He has given me a note to old 
Maria who is now reputed to be expert in making tomales, 
black bean soup and sancochoi the latter arouses my 
curiosity but 1 expect that it is an old friend under a 
name that is not known to me. 
I also have a letter from the Vice President of 
the United Fruit Company in Boston so that possibly they 
aim to take care that ornithologists as well as archeologists 
and botanists get safely aboard in Hew York City. My 
reservation is for the Musa sailing October 3. The 
Guatemalan government advise through the State Department 
(at an expense of $8*37 for idle cablegram) that my visit will 
be agreeable, I hope shat the Guatemala police take kindly 
to shotguns so that I may keep out of jail. 
Morley was here last week and will return again 
after the celebrations of the Tercentennary at Harvard. 
John Graf is off on a vacation in California, and Judd is 
flaying golf this week in Biltmore. He and Clausen went up 
to Hew Hampshire but came back almost immediately. I have 
