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February 18, 1969 
Mr. John Seago 
c/o Barclay's Bank 
Box 30011 
Nairobi, Kenya 
Dear John, Tony, Thelma, Mike, Winniki; and all the rest, 
neluding Ellie: 
In your last letter, John, you were so right about my being caught 
up in the intricacies of the administrative process. It seems as though 
I had never been away. The Christmas season was an absolutely 
ghastly madhouse, what with the Hong Kong flu, Mark home from 
college, and innumerable small and large crises at the Zoo. Lucy 
spent her Christmas in bed with the flu and was away from the office 
for two weeks, Several of the keepers were down with flu, Sitting 
here reflecting as to what I have been doing really makes me wonder. 
We have been terribly busy and harried. Between the construction 
program, financial and personnel problems, I seem to be involved. 
In my last letter I said something about Pierre Fontaine writing 
to you in regard to bongos. In case you have not heard the sad news, 
I must tell you that Pierre died, very suddenly, of a heart attack on 
December 21. The present director of the Dallas Zoo is Larry O. 
Calvin. 
All our great apes were tested last week, and the process went 
off very well. Iam enclosing a newspaper account of it. 
We think the white tiger is pregnant again; we have had a baby 
Colobus born; Myrt, the giraffe, had a baby on January 10th and the 
other female is pregnant again; and the black rhinos have bred again. 
So all goes well. We have taken on a new reptile man, and the 
pathologist has settled down and ‘s doing a good job. 
We have not had much snow, but the weather continues to be very 
cold. I wish I were back in Africa. 
With best regards to you all, 
Sincerely yours, 
Theodore H. Reed, D.V.M. 
Director 
THReed:lqm 
