July 1, 1968 
Mr. John Seago 
c/o Barclay's Bank 
Box 30011 
Nairebi, Kenya 
Dear John and Tony: 
In revic wing the bongo project I find I haven't written you since June 1 
and here it is the first of July. My apologies to you, gentlemen. It has 
been a rather busy month for us, but then all months are busy so this is 
no good excuse. 3 
I am in receipt of John's letter of June 12 and his letter of June 20. 
On June 20 there was a letter sent from Dr. Ripley to the Honorable 
Glenn W. Ferguson, the American Ambassador to Kenya. Mr. Ferguson 
is now apparently fully informed and I anticipate that David Challinor has 
visited him and that David has filled him in completely. Last weekT 
received a telephone call from the Smithsonian Institution stating that they 
had a letter from David Challinor, that he had visited you, and that also 
the permits to capture the bongo had been issued by the Government of 
Kenya and that you were proceeding with the field studies. 
I think the only thing of importance I have to discuss in this letter is 
the relationship of Simon Trevor. The National Geographic will unfor- | 
tunately have to make their own selection of a still photographer. They ve 
do not plan to use this story as a motion picture pre sentation. They will 
have a 35 mm. still camera man. AsI say, I have sugested Simon Trevor 
for this but the picture editors don't seem to be overwhelmingly excited 
about it. At the present moment I do not know what their plans are. I 
will keep working for Simon. 
The next question I have is what about payments? The way the Smith- 
sonian is set up, I can make payments either during the operation or at 
the end of it, or however you wish. The payment is apparently fairly 
simple. I have to make a statement that | have accepted so much of your 
work and that's apparently it. Please let me know how you would like 
to have this done. 
The next thing is some sort of idea on time schedule. Perhaps it is too 
early to discuss this. Perhaps Tony needs to come back from his first 
reconnaissance before he can give an estimated time. The way I now have 
it set up tentatively is that 1 would leave some time in September and stay 
until mid-October. I have made application for a passport and all that sort 
