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~ DIRECTOR'S OFFICE - NZP P.0. Box 30,001 
Nairobi, 
Jun 14 1968 : Kenyae 
RECEIVED May 28, 1968. 
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Miss Joanne M. Hess, 
 Seoretary, Lecture Committee, 
National Geographio Society, 
Washington D.C. 20036. 
Dear Joanne, 
Many thanks for your letters of May 6 and 14 
and the reassuring news about our respective gorilla films. 
I have had a letter from Dian Fossey and she would 
like me down there soon! Hah — that makes three of you = 
Dian with her gorillas, you and Charlene with your lions 
and the B.B.C. who would like their underwater hippo stuff. 
The B.B.C. are prepared to wait — as indeed they will have | 
tO This leaves gorillas versus lions. Dian is 
desperate (and frankly a bit neurotic) for us to go there 
in July or August. I think she has a terrible dread of 
being flung out, as she was from the Congo without having 
any photographic evidence to back up her work. 
I therefore plan to visit George in June and 
early July for a fairly short stay. I will probably take 
an assistant and leave him there for a couple of weeks | 
after I have left for Dian and the gorillas. In this way 
I should be able to Keep you all happy if not any one of | 
you ecsatatice 
Regarding Sooree, as I have said in an earlier 
letter, he is definitely continuing his study until the 
end of next year. I intend spending nearly all of next 
year on the lion and gorilla projects alone, so if I miss 
a little on him this July because of the gorillas, do not worry 
for he will have priority over Dian after this first trip, 
and next year I have cut my other commitments way downe 
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