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AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE
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Punta Arenas, Chile. April 5, 1927.

Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt,
c/o Falkland Islands Company,
Port Stanley.

Sir:

With reference to my telegram sent to you through the kindness of Mr. F.D. Paton, agent for the Falkland Island Company on April 22, 1927, and to your telegraphic reply, I beg to inform you that on March 25, 1927, I transmitted the following telegram to the Department of State: "March 25, Six P.M. - Inform Smithsonian Institution Doctor Schmitt is at Port Stanley telegraphs forced to steamship end of April requests me to forward mail and possible draft inform wife period collect eleven dollars." -signed Stevenson.  On March 29th I received the following telegraphic reply from the Department, "March 28, Four P.M. - Pay five hundred dollars Doctor Waldo L Schmitt from Smithsonian Institution period.

I therefore have today drawn a draft on the Secretary of State to the amount of $500 and deposited the equivalent in £ Sterling, £102;17: 7, to the account of Mr. F. D. Paton, agent for the Falkland Islands Company here, who has promised