May 21, 1969 
Mr. John Seago 
c/o Barclay's Bank 
Box 30011 
Nairobi, Kenya 
Dear John, Tony, Thelma, Winniki and all the boys, and Tiddles the cat: 
I received two lovely letters from you, one dated May 10 and one dated 
May 16. In reviewing the correspondence I find I have not replied to 
your letter of March 11. I must apologize for this, but the letter has 
been on my desk every day and it is just one of those things that I look 
forward to with pleasure and don't want to do anything about until I have 
time to do it thoroughly, and so it just doesn't get done. So this morning 
I came in a little early and am going to devote some time to answering 
your letters. 
Starting back in March, I do recall Alexander Aron and am glad that he has 
joined your staff. As lrecall, he and Tony had a good deal of experience 
together before Alexander left you to join the Game Department. lam a 
little surprised that Mike Nicholson joined Alan Root. I am not surprised 
that he left you «~- I felt that he was a little restless but I guess he knows 
what he is doing. 
I would appreciate it if Tony would just kind of sketch me out a little . 
rough map of where these new traps are in relation to where the old traps 
were on Mt. Gilkai. It would be very interesting for me just to visualize 
where the actionis or was. The new trap sounds very interesting. It . 
certainly must have been disheartening to find that the bongo had walked \ 
through the trap before you had the trigger set. It is very interesting ©. 
to me and I hope to other people, the number of animals you have caught 
{ in your traps and had to release, in relation to the number of animals = 
\ that other people have not caught. 
I had supper with Russell Arundel the other evening and he is talking 
about coming back to Africa in January. I told him that you wished to be 
remembered to him and he spoke of you with warm remembrances and | 
wished to be remembered to you. I also told him that you wanted him to «_ 
make a more leisurely trip to Africa and he just laughed, but maybe he 
can be persuaded this time to slow down a little bit. 
The Komodo business is going very slowly and I don't know if it's going 
to come off. The trip for Kerry Muller to New Guinea apparently faded 
and I'm rather glad that it did, but his trip to the Orient and perhaps to 
Nairobi this fall is still in the formative stages. As I told you, he is 
the man in charge of the birds here and will be making a collecting trip 
