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19•VIII•59

Dear Bill,

Thank you for apprising me of your inability of making it here on the 19th. I have been away for a couple of weeks myself got my first mail just a couple of days ago. But proposed get together^[[,]] we can arrange for some future occasion pending Darsie's, Cowan's, your, and my convenience. [[underlined]]But meanwhile please return all the developed film[[^s]] to the Museum.[[/underlined]] We too would like to check over them to see what should be retained for the Smithsonian.

It would be better to do this in advance of that contemplated get-together because satisfactory selections can not be made in haste, or in the spur of the moment. You certainly have a good idea by this time of those that you would like to have represented in the series that you may wish to have either as duplicates or as originals where these are to spare. You told me that it was